Modest Mussorgsky Biography Most Tragic of Russian Composers. Modest Mussorgsky had one of the most tragic lives of any composer on this site. A hugely promising talent, he descended into a dark spiral of …
The Five: The Five, group of five Russian composers—César Cui, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov—who in the 1860s banded together in an attempt to create a truly national college of Russian music, free of the stifling influence of Italian opera, German lieder,
Profiles of great classical composers. Quick facts, portraits, gifts, resources and useful links.
Famous Russian Composers of Classical Music – Historical biographies and videos to showcase the music of Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and others.
The Big List of Names. This list is not meant as an exhaustive reference; you can try to use it as such, but I make no guarantees about comprehensiveness.
Russian composers have created some of the most beautiful and powerful classical music. Here are the greatest of them all
An introduction to the major Russian composers of classical music from the ‘Mighty Five’ to the important 20th century composers Stravinsky and Shostakovich.
Мир русской грамзаписи. The World of Russian Records
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The Mighty Handful (Russian: Могучая кучка), also known as The Five and The New Russian college, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create distinct Russian classical music.