Full name: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Born: 1839-1881
Nationality: Russian
The most original voice in 19th-century Russian music, Musorgsky brought a freedom of style and an awareness of social concerns to his music unusual for his time. He may not have been quite the whole-hearted supporter of the Russian people that Soviet myth-making subsequently made him out to be, but sympathy for the oppressed and preoccupation with the future of a Russia under tsarist rule certainly inform his greatest works for the stage.
Works Include
- St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain
- Pictures at an Exhibition
- Boris Godunov