This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...

Sweetened arrangements of his works ensured the Russian composer’s afterlife – but left him hiding in plain sight. By Phil Hebblethwaite In late 1877, at the height of his fame, Tchaikovsky was asked ...

Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his ...

You can’t help but love Modest Mussorgsky; not only was he a brilliant composer, he was such a total, Dostoyevskian mess. This month, his great opera Khovanshchina is being performed by the Met after ...

History has many examples of one art form enhancing or commenting on another. Great paintings, in particular, have inspired great composers for ages. It is said Hokusai’s torrential “Great Wave” ...

Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) based his legendary "Pictures at an Exhibition," which the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs this weekend, on his tour through a show of artwork by a ...

A conversation with Hans Graf and Timothy McAllister about their upcoming concert with the Houston Symphony. McAllister continues with Graf's line by saying, "I feel that his music brings out the best ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "HE IS a great man. We forgive him." Vladimir Ashkenazy is talking about the French composer Maurice Ravel. Best known for Bolero , ...

What happens when Berlin breakdancers Flying Steps, Brazilian street artists Os Gemeos and 19th-century Russian composer Mussorgsky meet in a contemporary art museum? The new show "Flying Pictures" ...

A gaunt young actor is staggering about the chalked-up floor of a rehearsal room, a vodka bottle to his lips. "Russia is dying," he cries. "The old order must die. Russia will be reborn. The time is ...