Mussorgsky’s Tragic Downward Spiral
Mussorgsky's life is probably one of the saddest "riches to rags" stories in music history...
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Schonberg, Harold C. The Lives of the Great Composers. W. W. Norton, 1997.
Calvocoressi, M. D. “Mussorgsky’s Youth: In the Light of the Latest Information.” The Musical Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, 1934, pp. 1–14. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/738707. Accessed 20 Nov. 2023.