Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Musorgskiy (Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Romanized: Modest Petrovich Musorgskiy; March 21, 1839 [March 9 in the Julian calendar] - March 28, 1881 [March 16 in the Julian calendar]), Russian composer. He is famous for his opera "Boris Godunov" and piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition". Together with Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Kuyi and Balakirev, he formed the "Powerful Group" or the "Russian Five" and was considered a typical Russian composer in the 19th century. Mussorgsky died young and left behind many unfinished or unorchestrated works, which were completed by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov and Ravel.