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Modest Mussorgsky

1839 - 1881

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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (; Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский, romanized: Modest Petrovich Musorgsky; IPA: [mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj] ; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music. Many of Mussorgsky's works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. For many years, Mussorgsky's works were mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Modest Mussorgsky is the 47th most popular composer (down from 42nd in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Russia (up from 48th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Composer.

Modest Mussorgsky is most famous for his opera "Boris Godunov" and his compositions "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Night on Bald Mountain."

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 47 out of 1,451. Before him are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonio Salieri, Gaetano Donizetti, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Orlande de Lassus, and Tomaso Albinoni. After him are Anton Bruckner, Guido of Arezzo, Stefania Turkewich, Vincenzo Bellini, Arnold Schoenberg, and Edward Elgar.

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Among people born in 1839, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 4. Before him are Paul Cézanne, John D. Rockefeller, and Sully Prudhomme. After him are Jamsetji Tata, Alfred Sisley, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, and Nikolay Przhevalsky. Among people deceased in 1881, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 3. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Alexander II of Russia. After him are Billy the Kid, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Lewis H. Morgan, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, Jenny von Westphalen, and Henri Vieuxtemps.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 47 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), Boris Pasternak (1890), Elizabeth of Russia (1709), Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901), and E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776). After him are Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Alexander Nevsky (1220), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Paul I of Russia (1754), Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), and Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 6. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844). After him are Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), and Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904).

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