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 ...

Sweetened arrangements of his works ensured the Russian composer’s afterlife – but left him hiding in plain sight. By Phil Hebblethwaite In late 1877, at the height of his fame, Tchaikovsky was asked ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new video game based on the iconic Disney film Fantasia, called Fantasia: Music Evolved, will allow players to conduct Mussorgsky's 'Night On The Bare Mountain'. The new computer game, to be ...