How To Use Mussorgsky In A Sentence

True, the opera can seem talky despite Mussorgsky's eloquent song-speech techniques, but with the right singing actors, a gallery of fascinating characters comes vividly to life.
Debussy stands with Mussorgsky, Mahler, Reger, and Strauss among the great progenitors of Modernism.
In his footnote to The Philosophy of Modern Music, which Rosen comments upon, Adorno establishes a relationship — problematic, it has to be admitted — between the supposed "premodern" and "precapitalistic" character of Russian society and some "traits" of a presumed "pre" - subjectivism ‚ in the work of Mussorgsky and Dostoevsky (Adorno admired both). Adoring Adorno
There followed a new piece by Thomas Larcher "What Becomes" which behaved like a curtain-raiser to Mussorgsky's Pictures being full of Mussorgskian rhetoric and declamation and the odd plucked and scraped piano string to assert its "nowness". The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
The notes say nothing about the orchestration, which to my ears sounds like Shostakovich's 1940 instrumentation rather than Mussorgsky's rougher original.

But then again, some of these same people will probably mention Sviatoslav Richter's famous recording, a benchmark for the Mussorgsky for years - and that certainly reaches out and grabs you by the scruff of the neck.
Mussorgsky of the Russian folk music, vocal development of the nation has made important contributions.
SYMPHONY OF OAK PARK AND RIVER FOREST Jay Friedman, conductor, with tubaist Gene Pokorny and the Momenta Performing Arts Company in a family concert (Kleinsinger, Mussorgsky). Chicago Reader