March 21 - Modest Mussorgski (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous postings for March 21st may be found here: J. S. Bach [sic] (2019), Modest Mussorgsky (2020), Modest Mussorgsky; Hermann Finck (2021), and Modest Mussorgski (2022)

 

 

Modest Mussorgsky (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Variorum

Boris Godunov has often been subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, or conflation of the original and revised versions. – Wikipedia, s.v. “Boris Godunov (opera)”

There are so many versions that we

Are never quite sure what we’ll see

When deciding to go

To this great Russian show,

Which is often a big potpourri.

 

 

 

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