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Saint-Petersburg > City Today > Key persons > Composers > Moussorgsky M.P.
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 Composer, born in Karevo, Russia. He was educated for the army, but resigned his commission in 1858 and began the serious study of music under Balakirev. His masterpiece is the opera Boris Godunov, first performed in St Petersburg in 1874; his piano suite Pictures from an Exhibition (1874) has also kept a firm place in the concert repertoire. Other operas and large-scale works remained uncompleted as the composer sank into the chronic alcoholism which hastened his early death. His friend Rimsky-Korsakov undertook the task of musical executor, arranged or completed many of his unfinished works, and rearranged some of the finished ones. |
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| St. Petersburg Administration 191060, St. Petersburg, Smolny |
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