4. Balakeirev was only a couple of years older than Mussorgsky. For years, he and 4 other Russian composers got together to study and compose a Russian style of classical music. Balakeirev didn’t know that much about music but that didn’t stop him from criticizing music. He complained so much about one of Mussorgsky’s songs that Mussorgsky stopped working for him. The song he complained about is “Night on Bald Mountain.”
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7. = ? Boris Gudenov is not the same as Boris Badenov from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons! One of his best compositions, “Pictures at an Exhibition” was written in memory of an artist friend of his who died unexpectedly.