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Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)

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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born on March 21, 1839, in his ancestral estate of Karevo, Pskov province, Russia. He was the 30th generation from Rurik the Great, the first King of ancient Kiev Rus. Mussorgsky's family were wealthy landowners and belonged to Russian landed gentry. Young Mussorgsky studied piano from the age of six under the tutelage of his mother... See full bio »

Born:

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
in Karevo, Pskov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Died:

(age 42) in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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2012 Nobuyuki Tsujii Live at Carnegie Hall (TV movie) (music: "Pictures at an Exhibition")
 
1999-2012 The Simpsons (TV series)
– Them, Robot (2012) (writer: "Night on Bald Mountain")
– Simpsons Bible Stories (1999) ("Night on Bald Mountain")
 
2011 The Nostalgia Critic (TV series)
– Care Bears 2 (2011) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
2008 Burn After Reading (writer: "Pictures At An Exhibition Promenade" 1874)
 
2008 Hearsay (writer: "Pictures at an Exhibition - I")
 
2007 Venezuelan Brass Ensemble: Gran Fanfare (video) (writer: "Pictures at an Exhibition")
 
2007 Eddsworld (TV series)
– Halloween Special (2007) (performer: "Night on Bald Mountain")
 
2007 Super High Me (documentary) (writer: "Pictures at an Exhibition" / as Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
 
2007 The IT Crowd (TV series)
– Moss and the German (2007) (music: "Intermezzo" - uncredited)
 
2005 Animusic 2 (video short) (writer: "Cathedral Pictures")
 
2005 Crash Tag Team Racing (Video Game) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
2004 Gran Turismo 4 (Video Game) (writer: "Pictures as an Exhibition: Promenade")
 
2003 Drakengard (Video Game) (writer: "Pictures at an Exihibition")
 
2002 Kingdom Hearts (Video Game) (writer: "Night On Bald Mountain" / as Modest Petrovitch Mussorgsky)
 
1999 Any Given Sunday (writer: "Excerpts from 'PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION'")
 
1998 St. Ives ("Sorochintsy Fair" / as Mussorgsky)
 
1998 The Big Lebowski (writer: "Pictures at an Exhibition")
 
1998 Chaliapin: The Enchanter (TV movie) (music: "Boris Godunov")
 
1998 Oh Yeah! Cartoons (TV series)
– Hey Look! (1998) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1997 The Cartoon Cartoon Show (TV series)
– Tales of Worm Paranoia (1997) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1997 Lolita (writer: "Night On Bald Mountain")
 
1993-1997 Animaniacs (TV series)
– Message in a Bottle/Back in Style/Bones in the Body (1997) (music: "Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade 1 - Gnomus" - uncredited)
– Super Strong Warner Siblings/Nutcracker Slappy/Wakko's New Gookie/A Quake, a Quake! (1995) (music: "Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade 1 - Gnomus" - uncredited)
– Mary Tyler Dot Song/Windsor Hassle/...And Justice for Slappy (1993) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
– Casablanca Opening/Fair Game/The Slapper/Puppet Rulers (1993) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
– Draculee, Draculaa/Phranken-Runt (1993) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
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1997 Deconstructing Harry (writer: "Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain" 1867)
 
1997 Win Ben Stein's Money (TV series)
 
1997 3rd Rock from the Sun (TV series)
– A Nightmare on Dick Street: Part 1 (1997) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1997 Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (documentary) (writer: "Pictures at an Exhibition")
 
1995 Rocko's Modern Life (TV series)
– Sugar-Frosted Frights/Ed Is Dead: A Thriller! (1995) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1995 Another Froggy Evening (short) (music: "Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 1-Gnomus" - uncredited)
 
1995 Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery (TV movie) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1994 Bad Golf My Way (video) (music: "Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade 1: Gnomus" - uncredited)
 
1994 Taz-Mania (TV series)
– Driving Mr. Taz/Mean Bear/Boulder Museum (1994) (music: "Pictures at an Exhibition" - uncredited)
 
1994 Natural Born Killers (writer: "A Night on Bare Mountain")
 
1991-1994 The Ren & Stimpy Show (TV series)
– Eat My Cookies/Ren's Bitter Half (1994) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
– Ren's Retirement (1994) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
– The Great Outdoors/The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball (1993) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
– Black Hole/Stimpy's Invention (1992) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
– Space Madness/The Boy Who Cried Rat! (1991) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1994 Earthworm Jim (Video Game) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1994 Tiny Toons Spring Break (TV movie) (music: "Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 1 - Gnomus" - uncredited)
 
1993 Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure (Video Game) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1990-1992 Tiny Toon Adventures (TV series)
– Grandma's Dead (1992) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
– The Return of Batduck (1992) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
– Going Places (1991) (music: "Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade 1 - Gnomus" - uncredited)
– Pledge Week (1991) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
– No Toon Is an Island (1991) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
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1992 Goof Troop (TV series)
– Fool's Gold (1992) (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1992 Olivier, Olivier (music: "Boris Godounov" extract / as M. Moussorgski)
 
1992 The Little Mermaid (video) (writer: "Promenade - Gnomus")
 
1991 In the Shadow of the Stars (documentary) ("Excerpt: Khovanshchina")
 
1991 Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever (writer: "Night On Bald Mountain" / as Mussorgsky)
 
1989 Weekend at Bernie's ("NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN")
 
1988 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (music: "Una noche en la arida montaña" Night on Bald Mountain)
 
1987 WrestleMania III (video) (writer: "Great Gates of Kiev")
 
1984 The Toxic Avenger (writer: "A Night on Bare Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1984 Spelunker (Video Game) (writer: "Pictures at an Exhibition")
 
1981 Six personnages en quête d'un chanteur (TV movie) (writer: "Boris Godunov")
 
1980 Stardust Memories (music: "Night on Bald Mountain" 1867 / as Mussorgsky)
 
1977 Saturday Night Fever (writer: "Night On Disco Mountain")
 
1977 Jabberwocky ("Night on a Bald Mountain", "The Great Gate Of Kiev" / as M.Moussorgskij)
 
1976 El mundo de Gaudí (documentary short) (writer: "Cadence & Cascade")
 
1973 Un Amleto di meno (writer: "Pictures at an Exihibition")
 
1972/I Asylum (music: "A Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited, "Pictures at an Exhibition" - uncredited)
 
1972 Tableaux d'une exposition (short) (music: "Gnomus", "Il Vecchio Castello", "Tuileries" / as Modest Moussorgsky)
 
1971 Columbo (TV series)
– Suitable for Framing (1971) ("Promenade")
 
1970 Don Giovanni (writer: "Pictures at an Exhibition")
 
1968 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
– All My Loving (1968) (writer: "Pictures at an Exhibition")
 
1968 Our Lady of the Turks (writer: "A Night on Bare Mountain", "Pictures at an Exhibition")
 
1958 Young People's Concerts: What Does Music Mean (TV movie) (music: "Pictures at an Exhibition" excerpts)
 
1953 Ukrainian Concert Hall (documentary) (writer: "Boris Godunov")
 
1951 The Idiot (music: "A Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1946 Woman to Woman (writer: "Ballet Music")
 
1944 The Battle of China (documentary) (music: "Bidylo" - uncredited)
 
1941 The Chocolate Soldier (music: "Song of the Flea" 1879)
 
1940 Fantasia (writer: "A Night on Bald Mountain" 1867 / as Modeste Moussorgsky)
 
1940 Pride and Prejudice (writer: "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" pub. 1886 - uncredited)
 
1939 The Wizard of Oz (writer: "Night on Bald Mountain" 1867 - uncredited)
 
1937 Song at Midnight (writer: "Night on Bald Mountain")
 
1933 Eskimo (music: "Excerpts from Night on Bald Mountain" - uncredited)
 
1933 Une nuit sur le mont chauve (short) (music: "A Night on Bald Mountain")
 
1913 The Last Days of Pompeii (writer: "Pictures at an Exhibition" / as Mussorgsky)
 
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2012 Justa Locura (TV movie) (composer: stock music)
 
2012 The Chain Letter (short) (composer: stock music)
 
2010 The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (TV series) (music by - 1 episode)
– Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (2010) (music by - as Mussorgsky)
 
2007 Boris Godunov (TV movie) (music by)
 
2004 Boris Godunov (TV movie) (music by)
 
2003 Documentarist (documentary) (music)
 
1995 Hombre cero (short) (music)
 
1990 Boris Godunov (TV movie) (music by: 1872 Version)
 
1989 Boris Godounov (music by)
 
1989 Khovanshchina (TV movie) (music by)
 
1987 Boris Godunov (TV movie) (music by)
 
1982 Boris Godunov (TV movie) (music by)
 
1980 Boris Godounov (TV movie) (music by)
 
1979 Khovanshchina (TV movie) (music by)
 
1975 Boris Godunov (TV movie) (music by)
 
1974 Le funambule (music)
 
1966 Tenrankai no e (short) (music: based on the piano score of "Pictures at an exhibiton" - as Mussorgsky)
 
1963 Young People's Concerts: A Tribute to Teachers (TV movie) (composer: "Prelude to Khovantchina")
 
1960 Khovanschina (music by)
 
1954 Boris Godunov (music by)
 
1953 L'appel du destin (composer: additional music)
 
1946 Woman to Woman (composer: additional music: ballet music)
 
1935 Happiness (music: 1971 French sound version - as Modeste Moussorgsky)
 
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2010 The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (TV series)
– Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (2010) (libretto - uncredited)
 
1990 Boris Godunov (TV movie) (libretto)
 
1989 Boris Godounov (libretto)
 
1989 Khovanshchina (TV movie) (libretto)
 
1987 Boris Godunov (TV movie) (libretto)
 
1980 Boris Godounov (TV movie) (libretto)
 
1954 Boris Godunov (libretto)
 
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2012/II The Raven (short)
 
2010 Boris Godunov (TV movie) (composed by)
 
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(1980s) TV commercial: Maxell audio cassettes (composition used: "A Night on [St. John's] Bare Mountain").

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Famous for his musical masterpiece "Saint John's Night on a Bare Mountain", sometimes referred to as "Night on a Bare Mountain", or even more popularly as "Night on Bald Mountain". It was the inspiration for the final animated segment of Walt Disney's Fantasia, in which the composition was followed immediately without a pause by Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria". See more »

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