Modest Mussorgsky Quotes

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In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.

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My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.

Modest Mussorgsky

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky

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Born: March 9, 1839

Died: March 16, 1881 (aged 42)

Bio: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period.

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