Mussorgsky in a sentence

I placed Mussorgsky's piano arrangement in front of me and then two scores—Mussorgsky's and Rimsky-Korsakov's.

Loribelle understandably assumed my “gig” was in a pub but it was in fact a solo recital at Sydney’s luminous City Recital Hall, featuring Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, one of the most daunting pieces in all the repertoire.

Die orkes sal die progam begin met Night on a Bald Mountain (ook bekend as Night on a Bare Mountain) deur Mussorgsky en die Polovtsian Dances deur Borodin.

The Symphony’s tour will include works by Leonard Bernstein in celebration of his centennial, as well as Ravel’s Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky (arranged by Ravel); and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, featuring soloist Pinchas Zukerman.

Although these versions held the stage for decades, Mussorgsky's individual harmonic style and orchestration are now valued for their originality, and revisions by other hands have fallen out of fashion.

Calvocoressi, Abraham (1974: p. 139 Recently, however, a new appreciation for the rugged individuality of Mussorgsky's style has resulted in increasing performances and recording of his original versions.

He made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky 's Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known.

However, he also felt that Rimsky-Korsakov chopped up the melodic lines too much and, by blending melody and subvoices, may have subverted much of Mussorgsky's intent.

Igor Buketoff (1997) The American conductor Igor Buketoff created a version in which he removed most of Rimsky-Korsakov's additions and reorchestrations, and fleshed out some other parts of Mussorgsky's original orchestration.

In Tchaikovsky (1982: p. 89) Of the critics who evaluated the new opera, only the 19-year-old critic Vladimir Baskin defended Mussorgsky's skill as a composer.

I orchestrated by memory, act by act. Then I compared my orchestration with those of Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.

It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece.

Karamzin accepted his responsibility for the 'crime' as fact, and Pushkin and Mussorgsky after him assumed his guilt to be true, at least for the purpose of creating a tragedy in the mold of Shakespeare.

Lloyd-Jones (1975: p. 17) Recent researchers point out that there is insufficient evidence to support this claim, emphasizing that in his revision Mussorgsky had rectified the only objection the directorate is known to have made.

Mussorgsky adapted the most theatrically effective scenes, mainly those featuring the title character, along with a few other key scenes (Novodevichy, Cell, Inn), often preserving Pushkin's verses.

Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov both use the gong.

Mussorgsky completed only one opera, but Boris Godunov proved to be inspiration for generations of Russian composers on account of its uniquely nationalist character.

Mussorgsky has proved himself to be a philosopher-musician, capable of expressing with rare truth the mind and soul of his characters.

Mussorgsky is endowed with great and original talent, but Boris is an immature work, superb in parts, feeble in others.

Mussorgsky's music I send to the devil; it is the most vulgar and vile parody on music..