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Which Russian composer wrote Pictures at an Exhibition?

  • Modest Mussorgsky
  • Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Borodin

The answer is Modest Mussorgsky. Mussorgsky, in 1874.

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.

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