Modest Mussorgsky short biography

Trained as an army officer early in his life, Modest Mussorgsky belonged to Mighty Five, a group of five Russian nationalist composers. Many of Mussorgsky’s compositions remained unfinished at the time of his death. Mussorgsky carried an enormous influence on the generations of Russian and European composers. Rimsky-Korsakov completed many of Mussorgsky’s creations after the composer’s death.