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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.

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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.

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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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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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