Noun
Russian composer of operas and orchestral works (1839-1881)
Source: WordNetBorodin returned to Prince Igor in 1874, inspired by the success of his colleagues Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky in the staging of their historical operas, The Maid of Pskov (1873) and Boris Godunov (1874). Source: Internet
He claimed that Mussorgsky was so deficient in the ability to write instrumental music that he dispensed with composing a prelude, and that he had "borrowed the cheap method of characterization by leitmotives from Wagner." Source: Internet
Karamzin accepted his responsibility for the 'crime' as fact, and Pushkin and Mussorgsky after him assumed his guilt to be true, at least for the purpose of creating a tragedy in the mold of Shakespeare. Source: Internet
I orchestrated by memory, act by act. Then I compared my orchestration with those of Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Source: Internet
He made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky 's Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known. Source: Internet
Lloyd-Jones (1975: p. 17) Recent researchers point out that there is insufficient evidence to support this claim, emphasizing that in his revision Mussorgsky had rectified the only objection the directorate is known to have made. Source: Internet