Text Box:  26 This is another great Russian composer . His name is Modest (Moe dest’) Mussorgsky (Miz zor skee) and his rank is number 39 by Goulding. He was born in 1839, and died in 1881 at only 42 years old…of alcoholism, and epileptic fits. He was a member of a group of five Russian composers, none of whom are very famous to the average American, except for maybe, Rimsky-Korsakov or Borodin. They were called the “Mighty Five” in Russia. One piece you heard on the CD was called Promenade, which was written by Mussorgsky in 1874 as part of a piano work called Pictures at an Exhibition. This work had been inspired by the public displaying of paintings of his late friend, Victor Hartmann., and depicts a person viewing the pictures, and then walking between them. This is the Promenade part. The other piece you heard on the CD was called the Great Gate of Kiev, and depicts the last painting.