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Modest Mussorgsky the Civil Servant: Between Work and Music — Night on Bald Mountain

Music was never his official profession, yet it remained at the center of his life.Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881) began his career as a military officer and later worked as a civil servant. But alongside his government work, he was developing into one of Russia’s most original composers.His story is not simply...