Modeste Moussorgski
His musical education was erratic, he toiled as a civil servant and wrote music only part-time, influenced few if any of his contemporaries, died early from alcoholism, and left a small body of work. Yet Modest Mussorgsky was a towering figure in nineteenth century Russian music. His works exhibit a daring, raw individuality, a unique sound that well-meaning associates tried to conventionalize and smooth over. He is best known for Night on Bald Mountain (bowdlerized by Rimsky-Korsakov), Pictures at an Exhibition (a difficult piano suite orchestrated by Ravel), and the dark, declamatory opera Boris Godunov (polished by Rimsky-Korsakov) -- bastardized works all, yet each one full of arresting harmonies, disturbing colors, and grim celebrations of Russian nationalism.
Mussorgsky died in poverty, but he was born to a wealthy landowning family. Under his mother's tutelage, he developed a facility at the piano, but entered a cadet school in preparation for a military career. He joined a choir and discovered Russian church music, which would profoundly influence his later work.
Upon graduation in 1856, Mussorgsky entered the Russian Imperial Guard. That year he started to socialize with the composers Dargomizhsky and Cui, and through them Balakirev, with whom he began composition lessons. During this period he wrote small piano pieces and songs, and after an emotional crisis in 1858 resigned his commission with the intention of composing full-time. He began to go his own way as a composer in 1861, but was preoccupied helping to manage his family's estate. The decline in his family's fortunes led him to accept low-level civil service positions. He joined a commune with other intellectuals and became a proponent of musical Realism, applying the style to his songs. He had difficulty finishing works in larger formats, but his music circulated widely enough that by the late 1860s he was cast with Balakirev, Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin as part of Russia's "Mighty Handful."
Mussorgsky toiled many years at his masterpiece, Boris Godunov, which reflected in music the inflections of Russian speech and met with great success in 1874. That year he also produced his innovative piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. Yet his heavy drinking led to his dismissal from government service in 1880. Friends offered some financial help and Mussorgsky occasionally accompanied singers at the piano, but his finances and mental state quickly deteriorated. He died in 1881, leaving it to posterity to sort through and complete his unfinished works of unruly genius.
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on Bald Mountain & Khovanshchina (Excerpts) - Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Modeste Moussorgski, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Classical - Lançado por Vox em 1 de jan. de 1996
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Classical - Lançado por Music Online em 27 de set. de 2007
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition & Night on Bald Mountain
Classical - Lançado por Everest Records em 10 de jul. de 1960
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Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain, Dawn on the Moscow River etc.
Classical - Lançado por Music Online em 7 de dez. de 2007
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GRANDI VOCI - NICOLAI GHIAUROV Una collana dedicata con registrazioni originali Decca e Deutsche Grammophon rimasterizzate con le tecniche più moderne che ne garantiscono eccellenza tecnica e artistica
Nicolaï Ghiaurov, Giuseppe Verdi, Modeste Moussorgski
Classical - Lançado por UME - Global Clearing House em 27 de abr. de 2021
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Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music
Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn
Classical - Lançado por AVIE Records em 15 de out. de 2021
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Chaliapin: the Complete Recordings 1907-1936 Volume 5. British and American Recordings
Classical - Lançado por Music Online em 10 de set. de 2007
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Mussorgsky - Borodin
Orquesta Nacional de Montecarlo, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio de Hamburgo, Orquesta Nacional de la Radio de Francia
Classical - Lançado por JamadaDigital em 18 de dez. de 2014
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Halloween At Home
Franz Liszt, Modeste Moussorgski, Antonín Dvořák
Classical - Lançado por UME - Global Clearing House em 19 de out. de 2020
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Gnomus (feat. Roger Roman)
Classical - Lançado por CP Projects - Solo Piano em 4 de abr. de 2013
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Classical - Lançado por Heritage Records em 4 de ago. de 2014
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Mussorgsky: Une Larme (A Tear) For Piano [Digitally Remastered]
Classical - Lançado por EMG Classical em 28 de out. de 2014
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Absolutely The Best Of Mussorgsky
Classical - Lançado por Worldwide Records em 19 de jan. de 2011
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Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
Classical - Lançado por Music Online em 15 de out. de 2007
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MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition
Christian Lindberg, Israel NK orchestra, Modeste Moussorgski
Classical - Lançado por EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE em 10 de ago. de 2021
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Mussorgsky: Piano Music Vol. 1
Classical - Lançado por Danacord Records em 1 de jan. de 2000
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Steven Stucky, Berlioz, Musorgsky
Classical - Lançado por New York Philharmonic em 15 de mai. de 2012
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Chaliapin: the Complete Recordings 1907-1936 Volume 12. British and American Recordings
Classical - Lançado por Music Online em 17 de set. de 2007
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Khovantchina
Leningrad State Opera Orchestra
Opera - Lançado por Period Records em 24 de set. de 1965
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain
Classical - Lançado por Celestial Harmonies em 1 de jan. de 2005
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Mussorgsky - Time
Classical - Lançado por UME - Global Clearing House em 18 de jul. de 2020
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