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MODEST PETROVICH
MUSSORGKSY
(1838 - 1881)
COMPOSER
In
St. Petersburg, a performance of Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov"
brought
30 curtain calls. The composer loved men, music and vodka.
Alcohol
addiction stunted his creativity and led to an early death.
Nicolai
Rimsky-Korsakov
Nicolai
Rimsky-Korsakov was Mussorgsky's roommate for two years
and
estate executor. Thereafter he devoted much of his life to
finishing
and refining Mussorgsky's music.
Copyright Louis Paul Hennefeld 1983
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