Moussorgsky

[ moo-sawrg-skee, -zawrg-; Russian moo-suhrk-skyee ]

noun

1. Mo·dest Pe·tro·vich [moh-, dest, pi-, troh, -vich, muh-, dyest, pyi-, traw, -vyich], 1839–81, Russian composer.

Moussorgsky

/ mʊˈsɔːɡskɪ; ˈmusərkskij /

noun

1. a variant spelling of (Modest Petrovich) Mussorgsky

Example Sentences

Russian music had long enjoyed eccentric metres, such as the 5/4 waltz movement in Tchaikovsky's Pathétique, and shifting metres, as in the alternation of fives and sixes in the first movement of Moussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition.

From The Guardian

It is not original, this theme, and it is as eternal as mediocrity; but it has been orchestrated anew by Artzibashef, who, like his fellow countrymen, Tschaikovsky and Moussorgsky, contrives to reveal to us, if no hidden angles of the truth, at least its illusion in terms of terror, anguish, and deadly nausea produced by mere existence.

From Project Gutenberg

In Russia he absorbed the native music, especially that of Moussorgsky, who, recently dead, had left behind him the reputation of a “musical nihilist,” and on his return to Paris Debussy devoted himself to composition, the stream of his muse being even in 1908 as fluent as twenty years before.

From Project Gutenberg

Despite the unventilated room, the greasy appointments, and other details that would have turned the stomach of Kensington, that girl at the piano, her dress cunningly disarranged, playing, as no one would have dreamed she could play, the finer intensities of Wieniawski and Moussorgsky, shook all sense of responsibility from me.

From Project Gutenberg

And he mewed a bit of Moussorgsky.

From Project Gutenberg