My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music. — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
