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The Five (Russian: Могучая кучка, lit. Mighty Bunch), also known as the Mighty Handful or The Mighty Five, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create a distinct national style of classical music: Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander ...
The Five, group of five Russian composers— César Cui, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov —who in the 1860s banded together in an attempt to create a truly national school of Russian music, free of the stifling influence of Italian opera, German lieder, and other western European forms.
Jeremy Pound introduces the influential group of 19th-century Russian composers also known as The Five – or The Mighty Handful.
The Five, made up of composers Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, sought to produce a specifically Russian kind of art music, rather than one that imitated older European music or relied on European-style conservatory training.
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov [a] (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) [b] was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. [c] He was a master of orchestration.
Learn about "The Five," 5 young Russian composers formed and worked together from 1856 through 1870. It consisted of Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, César Cui, and the leader the leader Mily Balakirev.
23 lut 2023 · The Five, or Mighty Handful, were a group of Russian composers who collaborated from 1856 to 1870 to create a distinct national style of classical music. The group included Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin.
