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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.
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.
24 sie 2016 · The Five [1], name of a group of late 19th-century Russian composers. They were Balakirev [2], the leader, Cui [3], Moussorgsky [4], Borodin [5], and Rimsky-Korsakov [6].
The Five, also known as The Oxen (Russian: Могучая кучка, Mogúchaya kuchka), refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, in the years 1856-1870: Mili Balákirev (the leader), César Cuí, Modest Músorgski, Nikolai Rimsky-Kórsakov and Aleksandr Borodín. The group had the goal of producing a type of music specific ...
The members included Alexander Borodin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky, César Cui, and the leader Mily Balakirev. From 1856 to 1870, the group was based in Saint Petersburg and collaborated intended to create a distinct genre of Russian classical music.