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Title: Modern composers of Europe : being an account of the most recent musical progress in the various European nations, with some notes on their history, and critical and biographical sketches of the contemporary musical leaders in each country
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Elson, Arthur, 1873-1940
Subjects: Composers
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ayshard to satisfy, he soon changed to the departmentof control, after which he left the governmentservice altogether. He made a successful musicaltour with Mile. Leonova, a famous singer, buthis health was too far gone for him to continuein this field, and he died in 1881, on his forty-second birthday. In 1862 a meeting with Borodin, leading toa close friendship, caused an acquaintance withBalakireff, and the pair became members of thelittle circle which was completed by the renownedRimsky-Korsakoff. If Moussorgsky lacked musicaltraining, and was ignorant of some of the simplestrules of composition, the weird and formless char-acter of his music did not entirely obscure the charmof his wonderful faculty for melody of the mostoriginal and striking character. Moussorgsky has been spoken of as a poet bynature, expressing his great thoughts in the formof an art that he had not mastered. The deepmisery and the strong passions of humanity findan echo in his wild utterances, and their force
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MODEST PETROVITCH MOUSSORGSKY. THE NATIONAL RUSSIANS 2^7 is unmistakable. Those that were revised afterhis death show a smoother form, but lack the savagepower that seemed his especial gift. His songs, hischoruses, his piano pieces, all show the same ruggedstrength. He wrote larger works, and even en-tered the operatic field with Boris Godunoff and Chovanstchina, but in these his lack of trainingshowed itself, and they never met with favour untilsmoothed and polished by his more learned friends.Such was the case with his symphonic work, UneNuit sur le Mont-Chauve, and the Intermezzo,both of which were remodelled by Rimsky-Kor-sakoff. His Defeat of Sennacherib is but oneof many Hebraic Choruses. The Tableaux duneExposition are among the best of his piano works,while his songs include settings of Goethe andHeine as well as Russian poets. Before his deathMoussorgsky sketched one act of Mlada, andplanned to set Gogols La Marieuse. Alexander Porphyrjevitch Borodin was born atSt. Petersburg

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