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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Promenade (feat. Roger Roman)
Classical - Lançado por CP Projects - Solo Piano em 04/04/2013
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Tuileries. Piano Works by Bach, Bartok & Mussorsgky
Irene Cantos, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Modeste Moussorgski, Henry Purcell
Classical - Lançado por Novus Promusica em 19/03/2024
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain (Studio)
Classical - Lançado por Phoenix USA em 01/11/1988
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Night on Bald Mountain
Classical - Lançado por Audiofonic Records em 08/02/2020
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Mussorgsky - Colorful
Classical - Lançado por UME - Global Clearing House em 27/02/2021
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Mussorgsky: The Capture of Kars, Triumphal March (Digitally Remastered)
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov
Classical - Lançado por EMG Classical em 28/10/2014
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Pictures at an Exhibition
Classical - Lançado por Audiofonic Records em 25/01/2019
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Promenade (Pictures at an Exhibition)
Alfred Wilhelmsson, Modeste Moussorgski
Classical - Lançado por Wide&Brook em 05/04/2024
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Mussorgsky: Night at the Lysayer Gorev, Symphonic Fantasy (Digitally Remastered)
Moscow RTV Large Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Cherkasov
Classical - Lançado por EMG Classical em 28/10/2014
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Mussorgsky: Scherzo in B-Flat Major (Digitally Remastered)
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov
Classical - Lançado por EMG Classical em 28/10/2014
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The Classical Great Series, Vol. 35: Mussorgsky
Classical - Lançado por Global Journey em 13/06/2013
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Turtle Mix
Classical - Lançado por Tresona em 01/01/2000
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Halloween Classical Music
Classical - Lançado por Music Ware em 28/10/2016
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Musik Zun Entspannen
Classical - Lançado por Music Ware em 18/05/2016
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Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
Classical - Lançado por Sunday Club Records em 31/05/2012
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The Best of Mussorgsky (Remastered)
Miscellaneous - Lançado por Classic Records Ltd. em 27/04/2018
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Mussorgsky - Night On the Bare Mountain
The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Sir Adrian Boult
Classical - Lançado por Violet Hill Records em 11/06/2012
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
Classical - Lançado por Sunday Club Records em 04/06/2012
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