This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...

It couldn't come more full cirlce: Kandinsky created his only stage production based on Mussorgsky's piano cycle, "Pictures at an Exhibition," inspired by a photo exhibition. Kandinsky's stage designs ...

Mussorgsky’s musical talent was nurtured by his mother (he was good enough to play a John Field concerto by the age of nine) and, as a 13-year-old cadet at the military academy, he began writing an ...

It was as a teenager that the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky was first inspired to write his orchestral poem A Night on the Bare Mountain, in 1867. He was an ambitious young man with dreams to ...

For composers, the death of a close friend or family member tends to have one of two effects: they either retreat into their own world, devoid of inspiration and unable to compose, or this life ...

Modest Mussorgsky was a composer close composerA person who writes music. from Russia. He was born in 1839 and died in 1881. One of his most famous pieces is called 'Pictures at an Art Exhibition'. It ...

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is embracing the exotic when it opens its 2025-26 season next weekend in Burlington and Rutland, but it hasn’t forgotten to include a beloved “war horse.” “It all ...

“Unorthodox” is a description you could apply to much of the music by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839-81). He was born into wealth (fellow composer Borodin once called him “an elegant ...

Ravel’s vivid orchestration of Mussorgsky’s gallery has long eclipsed the piano original in popularity. Mark Pullinger ranges across 10 decades in his search for the finest recording Ilya Repin’s ...

Modest Mussorgsky was born 175 years ago, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 170 years ago. The two composers were contemporaries and companions, but also opposites. Their friendship: a stroke of good ...