RAOUL DUFY (1877-1953) 'Portrait de Moussorgsky'
circa 1915-20, woodcut on Chine volant, 22.3cm x 16cm
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Note: Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881, St. Petersburg) Russian composer noted particularly for his opera Boris Godunov (final version first performed 1874), his songs, and his piano piece Pictures from an Exhibition (1874). Mussorgsky, along with Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and César Cui, was a member of The Five, a group of Russian composers bound together in the common goal of creating a nationalist school of Russian music.
