Mussorgsky and the Mighty Handful
Quiz Yourself About Mussorgsky and the Mighty Handful
13. An interesting fact about the composers of the Mighty Handful is most of them had regular “day jobs” and careers. What were those careers?
Mussorgsky: civil servant in the Russian Ministry of Communications and Forestry Department
Borodin: chemist and physician. He made significant contributions to organic chemistry and held a professorship in chemistry at the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg
Rimsky-Korsakov: naval officer
Cui: army officer and military engineer
Balakirev: the only ‘trained’ musician of The Five, but no Conservatory training. Largely self-taught
14. What was the relationship between Tchaikovsky and the Mighty Handful like, and how was Tchaikovsky’s musical aesthetic different than that of the Mighty Handful?
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