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MOUSSORGSKY, MODESTE PETROVICH (1835-1881) , See also:Russian composer, was See also:born at Karevo, See also:government of See also:Pskov, in See also:March 1835, and entered the See also:army at an See also:early See also:age. He came of a musical See also:family, and was himself a talented See also:amateur, and an acquaintance with See also:Balakirev and See also:Dargomijsky led him to more serious study of See also:composition, so that in 1857 he See also:left the army and devoted himself to See also:music, though this step entailed his earning his living as a government clerk and a prolonged See also:period of poverty. His greatest See also:opera, Boris Godounov, based on See also:Pushkin's See also:drama, was produced in St See also:Petersburg in 1874, and on it his reputation stands as one of the finest creative composers in the ranks of the See also:modern Russian school. He also wrote a number of songs and orchestral See also:works, of a realistic See also:national type. In later See also:life he suffered much from See also:ill-See also:health, and died in St Petersburg on the 16th (28th) of March 1881.

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