Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Monday, January 14, 2013

On Mussorgsky

From the liner notes of the Naxos recording of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition:
Mussorgsky, when he left the army, became a monstrously incompetent and unreliable civil servant.
I suppose that not everyone can be a Borodin. At least Mussorgsky could compose music.