A ‘cradle-to-grave songspiel’ describing the arc of a woman’s life is brilliantly conceived by soprano Booth and pianist Glynn Modest Mussorgsky is indisputably one of the greatest of 19th-century ...

This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...

“Unorthodox” is a description you could apply to much of the music by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839-81). He was born into wealth (fellow composer Borodin once called him “an elegant ...

Mussorgsky’s musical talent was nurtured by his mother (he was good enough to play a John Field concerto by the age of nine) and, as a 13-year-old cadet at the military academy, he began writing an ...

Ravel’s vivid orchestration of Mussorgsky’s gallery has long eclipsed the piano original in popularity. Mark Pullinger ranges across 10 decades in his search for the finest recording The 1881 portrait ...

As part of our daily series Armchair Arts, Rupert Christiansen guides you through Mussorgsky's epic opera of 1873 Rupert Christiansen was the opera critic and arts features writer for The Telegraph ...

Modest Mussorgsky was a composer close composerA person who writes music. from Russia. He was born in 1839 and died in 1881. One of his most famous pieces is called 'Pictures at an Art Exhibition'. It ...

How do you feel when you walk into an art gallery? Do you feel confused, curious, or excited? In 1874 the composer Modest Mussorgsky entered an exhibition in Saint Petersburg that would inspire his ...

If you were a teenager shopping for albums in late 1971, all you needed to know about Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”—a rock interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky’s 1874 work of the ...

For composers, the death of a close friend or family member tends to have one of two effects: they either retreat into their own world, devoid of inspiration and unable to compose, or this life ...

It couldn't come more full cirlce: Kandinsky created his only stage production based on Mussorgsky's piano cycle, "Pictures at an Exhibition," inspired by a photo exhibition. Kandinsky's stage designs ...