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He was a member of The Five, the group of composers under the leadership of Mily Balakirev dedicated to producing a distinctly Russian kind of music. Mussorgsky is best remembered today for his orchestral work St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain (commonly known as Night on Bald Mountain and popularized particularly by its appearance in Disney's Fantasia), and his cycle of piano pieces, Pictures at an Exhibition, written in commemoration of his friend, the architect Viktor Hartmann . (Years after Mussorgsky's death, a well known orchestral arrangement of the piece was made by Maurice Ravel.) Mussorgsky's opera, Boris GodunovBoris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky, based on the drama of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. It was first produced in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1874. The work exists in two main versions: the original 1869 version, and a revised version fro is also well known.
Among his other works are a number of songThis page is about musical songs. For other meanings, see Song (disambiguation). A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words ( lyrics). It is typically fors, including three song cycles: The Nursery (1872), Sunless (1874) and Songs & Dances of Death (1877). Sunless lends its title to the 1982 film Sans Soleil by Chris MarkerChris Marker (born July 29, 1921) is a writer, photographer, film director and documentary maker. He was born Christian Bouche-Villeneuve in Paris, France. He is best known for directing La Jetee ( 1963) and Sans Soleil ( 1982). Chris Marker studied philo. The significance of the reference is not readily apparent, but the connection is acknowledged explicitly by Marker towards the end of the film.
Mussorgsky died on March 28, 1881 and was interred in Tikhvin CemeteryTikhvin Cemetery is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Established in 1823, some of the notables buried here are: Mily Balakirev (1836-1910), composer Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), composer Cesar Cui (1835-1918), compos at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in St. Petersburg, Russia.