Official videos
Latest releases
Ballade - A Piano Exhibition
Ansermet conducts Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Anatol Ugorski - Piano Recital
Alfred Brendel - Portrait
Abbado: Baroque & Beyond
Mussorgsky: Sorochinsky Fair & Salammbô Suite
Airs by the River
A Cello Recital
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Pieces by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky & Mussorgsky
Karajan A-Z: Mussorgsky - Nielsen
Classical Souvenir
The Sound of the Academy
About this artist
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Russian composer.
Born: March 21 (March 9 O.S.), 1839, Karevo, Pskov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died: March 28 (March 16 O.S.), 1881, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
One of the Russian composers known as "Могучая кучка" / "The Five", was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.