MODEST
MUSSORGSKY 1839-1881
Modest was
a Russian composer noted particularly for his opera Boris Godunov (final
version first performed 1874), his songs, and his piano piece Pictures from
an Exhibition (1874). Mussorgsky, along with Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and César Cui, was a member of 'The Five’, a group of Russian composers bound together in the common goal of creating a nationalist school of Russian music. In Russia they were know as the 'mighty handful'.