1969 Press Photo MUSSORGSKY RUSSIAN COMPOSER

PORTRAIT OF MUSSORGSKYModest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: ??????? ????????? ?ý?o??????; IPA: [m??d?est ?mus?rksk??j]; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.(WIKIPEDIA)