Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (died 1881)

Modest Mussorgsky

Russian composer (1839–1881)

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 and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western…