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Mussorgsky, Moussorgsky
Modest Petrovich . 1839--81, Russian composer. He translated inflections of speech into melody in such works as the song cycle Songs and Dances of Death (1875--77) and the opera Boris Godunov (1874). His other works include Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) for piano


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This was done mainly at the behest of Kandinsky, who had a keen interest in modern music and devoted the closing paragraphs of On the Spiritual in Art to a discussion of it, placing Schoenberg's use of dissonance in the context of the innovations of Wagner, Moussorgsky, Debussy, and Scriabin, and by implication equating Schoenberg's dissonant aesthetic with his own venture into the aesthetics of abstraction.
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It's practically anticlimactic to say that the performances of both the Moussorgsky and the Bartok, recorded a little later, are as legendary as the sound.
Moussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition; Bartok: Music for ... by Puccio, John / Sensible Sound
 
 
 
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