Biography Mussorgsky Portrait

Get one most read article once a day. Join us on Facebook and VKontakte. Subscription can be unsubscribed at any time. The portrait of the composer M. Mussorgsky, the fragment with the only lifetime portrait of the great composer Modest Mussorgsky was the famous portrait of the brush of Ilya Repin. The artist wrote it in just 4 sessions, 10 days before the composer’s death, while he was in the hospital.

Repin was able not only to photographically and realistically capture the external features of the posing, but also to convey the very essence of his character. This is exactly how the Mussorgsky contemporaries saw, so it seems to him now - with proud posture, but with a heavy muddy look, disheveled hair and a swollen face - traces of long years of alcohol dependence.

On the left-Modest Mussorgsky, an officer of the Life Guards of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, on the right-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky on the right with his brother, photo: Fanread. At the same time, his face and pose are full of dignity and masculinity. He seems to be anticipated by an ambulance, but he is ready to accept what awaits him. Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, photo: File2.

From this, the atmosphere of the picture becomes even more dramatic, but not gloomy, not oppressing - on the contrary, it gives the impression of grandeur and greatness. Thanks to Repin’s desire to display reality in all her unsightly truth, this portrait is called the best and most “similar” of all the images of Mussorgsky. The sketch of the portrait of M. Mussorgsky on the portrait was transmitted by both the physical and spiritual state of the composer.

The ideologist of the “mighty pile”, whose member was Mussorgsky, Vladimir Stasov was shocked by this work: “This is incredible! And only think, it is written in just four sessions! Of all who knew Mussorgsky, there was no one who would not be delighted with this portrait - so he is vital, so he looks like, so he correctly and simply conveys the whole nature, the entire appearance of Mussorgsky.

” Mussorgsky, the picture was painted a few days before the composer's death. And this portrait has become a kind of summing up, as if the history of the whole life of Mussorgsky is captured on it. Some critics wrote that in the composer’s eyes, his music sounds in this portrait - indomitable and powerful. The daughter of V. Stasova recalled: “Secret in appearance, so elegant and as if superficial, Mussorgsky became his music, with its unforgettable deep performance to cause such deep thoughts, such deep feelings ...”.

Mussorgsky, photo: Mussorgsky. Chaliapin in the role of Boris Godunov. Bolshoi Theater, photo: Expert. But in music, he managed to achieve unprecedented heights. Explaining the main theme of his opera Boris Godunov, the composer wrote: “I understand the people as a great person who is animated by one idea. This is my task. I tried to allow her in the opera.

" And the plan was a success - and the premiere of the opera, and all subsequent performances took place in crowded halls. Composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Photo: People. The composer had a chance to survive the crushing reviews of the music, the death of his mother and the death of his beloved woman, whose name he never called anyone, and a constant need for money. Despite the periodic binges, he continued to create inspirationally: the suite “Pictures from the exhibition”, the operas “Khovanshchina” and “Sorochinsky Fair”, remaining incomplete - how many more brilliant works could have appeared if death had not taken Mussorgsky in the year of life.

The consequences of alcoholism turned out to be fatal: cirrhosis of the liver, heart disease and inflammation of the spinal cord. Then support us, press:.