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Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839-81) Photo, 1865

Explore the life, music, and legacy of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, the renowned Russian composer known for "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Boris Godunov." Discover his impact on classical music and Russian culture.

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Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839-81) Photo, 1865

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  1. Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839-81)Photo, 1865

  2. Young Musorgsky as an Officer in the Prestigious Preobrazhensky Guard, St. Petersburg

  3. Musorgsky, Photo, 1870

  4. Musorgsky, Portrait by Repin (1881)Musorgsky’s Grave, Tikhvin Cemetery, Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg

  5. Opera: Boris Godunov (1874)Stars: Ivan Melnikov (Tsar Boris); Yuliya Platonova (Marina Mniszek); Fyodor Komissarzhevsky (False Dmitrii II); Gennady Kondratiev/Osip Petrov (Misail and Varlaam)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CuhwXbfZ-I (Holy Fool, 1954 film)

  6. “Night on Bald Mountain”(Various visual versions, from left: full score; CD cover; original soundtrack of Disney’s Fantasia, with Leopold Stokowski conductinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8 (NY Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein)

  7. Viktor Aleksandrovich Gartmann (Hartmann)(1834-73)

  8. Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) First Edition, 1886, for piano • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ei1NF0oic (Yevgenii Kissin) • Ravel orchestra version (1922): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXy50exHjes (Chicago Symphony: Georg Solti)

  9. Gnomus (Hartmann’s costume design for the evil dwarf in Pushkin’s narrative poem Ruslan and Lyudmila, Chernomor)

  10. The Old Castle (Il Vecchio Castello); Costumes for the dance “Chicks in their Shells” in the ballet “Trilby”

  11. Portraits from Hartmann’s collection of Sandomierz’s Jewish residents (Poland); subtitled by Vladimir Stasov as “A rich Jew and a poor Jew”

  12. Catacombs beneath Paris (Hartmann’s self-portrait); Clock designed after Baba Yaga’s hut on chicken’s legs

  13. Great Gate of Kiev

  14. Monument to Musorgsky at his birthplace on the Lovat River in the south of Pskov Province

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