Bust-length watercolor of the composer after the famous 1881 oil portrait

by Ilya Repin. Signed ? Cerrudo. Late 19th-early 20th century by Modest Mussorgsky

$375 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Image size ca. 138 x 93 mm; overall size 205 x 155 mm. On French watermarked art paper by Montgolfier. Within an gold-colored oval mat gilt in a wooden frame gilt. Mussorgsky's greatest achievements were as a composer of operas and solo songs. Largely self-taught and highly intellectual, he discovered a way of writing for the voice that was both lyrical and true to the inflections of speech. He was the most strikingly individual Russian composer of the

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