Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky quotes
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“Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.”
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“My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.”
-- Modest Petrovich MussorgskySource : Letter to Lyudmila Shestakova on July 30, 1868. "The Musorgsky Reader: A Life of Modeste Petrovich Musorgsky in Letters and Documents", p. 113, 1947.
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“In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.”
-- Modest Petrovich MussorgskySource : Letter to Vladimir Stassov on October 18, 1872. "Moussorgsky". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England, p. 107, 1929.
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“I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.”
-- Modest Petrovich MussorgskySource : "The Essential Canon of Classical Music". Book by David Dubal, 2003.
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“Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.”
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“And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.”
-- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
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