I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera. — 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
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
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
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
