modest mussorgsky

     

His first name means "moderate"; sadly, immoderate drinking helped kill him in 1881 at age 42, but not on Bald Mountain

Trivia about modest mussorgsky

  • "Boris Godunov" is the only opera completed by this composer
  • Orchestras are now playing the original version of his "Boris Godunov", not the one Rimsky-Korsakov edited
  • Rimsky-Korsakov's reorchestration of his "A Night on Bald Mountain" debuted after his death
  • The old believers immolate themselves on a funeral pyre in "Khovanschina" by the composer of "Boris Godunov"

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