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MOUSSORGSKY, MODESTE PETROVICH (1835-1881)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 944 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
MOUSSORGSKY, MODESTE PETROVICH (1835-1881) ,
Russian
  composer, was born at Karevo, government of Pskov, in
March
  1835, and entered the army at an early age. He came of a musical family, and was himself a talented
amateur
 , and an acquaintance with Balakirev and Dargomijsky led him to more serious study of composition, so that in 1857 he left the army and devoted himself to music, though this step entailed his earning his living as a government clerk and a prolonged period of poverty. His greatest opera, Boris Godounov, based on
Pushkin
 's drama, was produced in St
Petersburg
  in 1874, and on it his reputation stands as one of the finest creative composers in the ranks of the
modern
 
Russian
  school. He also wrote a number of songs and orchestral works, of a realistic national type. In later
life
  he suffered much from ill-
health
 , and died in St
Petersburg
  on the 16th (28th) of
March
  1881.


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