Caroline Brazelton
Final Blog Entry
Elementary Russian
The Five.
In Russian Musical history, there are five men who had an
influential mark on what came to be the cultural acceptance in Russian
history. These five men, Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui,
Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin, were known as
The Five. Other common names
included The Mighty Handful, or The Mighty Coterie. These composers met annually in St. Petersburg from
1856-1870. Each of these men aimed
to revise and reshape the identity of Russian music. They did in their own ways, but all had a common purpose of
starting the Romantic Nationalist movement in Russia. They composed through art
song, opera, orchestration, dances, and many other forms of music. Certain rhythms and chords began to be
associated with the Russian culture. Most importantly, these men essentially
put Russia ‘on the map’ for great compositions, paving the way for other
phenomenal composers to follow.
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