Modeste Petrovich Musorgsky

In 1857, Modeste Musorgsky met Balakirev, and persuaded him to give him lessons and composed songs, as well as piano sonalas. In the following year, he resigned his army commission because of a nervous or spiritual crisis he was experiencing. After another year, his music began to enjoy numerous public performances, but his nervous irritability was not completely comforted.

In 1859, Musorgsky was obliged to spend most of the following two year

Night on Bald Mountain, a piece written by Musorgsky for an orchestra, shows his attempt to write a piece that resembles the story from Mengden’s drama, “The Witch”. The witches are together on a mountain, chatting and playing pranks, waiting for Satan’s arrival. He arrives in the form of a he-goat, and they surround his throne of offer praise. Once Satan was satisfied with their praise, he would choose the best witches to serve his fancies. Musorgsky tried to represent this in the form of music, but was affected by several hardships, including the criticism of his friends and fellow composers.

Many of Musorgsky’s works remained unfinished at his death, and Rimsky-Korsakov edited and published many of them, “correcting” what Musorgsky had written. It was only later, when returning to the composer’s original drafts, that the true nature of his art could be understood. Musorgsky had a disdain for ‘art for art’s sake,’ and wanted to relate his art to life, especially the life of the Russian people, and to use it as a way to describe human experiences.

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