Previous postings for March 21st may be found here: J. S. Bach [sic] (2019), Modest Mussorgsky (2020), Modest Mussorgsky; Hermann Finck (2021), Modest Mussorgsky (2022), Modest Mussorgsky (2023), Thurlow Lieurance; Modest Mussorgski (2024). and Modest Mussorgsky (2025)
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Modest Mussorgsky (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer.
Making the Same Point Twice
I need hardly remind the reader that the orchestral piece universally known as 'Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain' is an orchestral composition by Rimsky-Korsakov based on the later version of the Bare Mountain music which Mussorgsky prepared for Sorochintsy Fair. – Gerald Abraham, as qtd. in Wikipedia, s,v. "Night on Bald Mountain"
(1)
A Night on Bald Mountain is known
In a version that's highly emended,
And musical scholars have shown
It's not what Mussorgsky intended.
(2)
A Night on Bald Mountain, a score
Which is given in Rimsky's edition,
Takes Mussorgsky's musical ore,
And subjects it to recomposition.
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