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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Five_(composers)The Five (composers) - Wikipedia

    The Five (Russian: Могучая кучка, lit. Mighty Bunch), also known as the Mighty Handful or The Mighty Five, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create a distinct national style of classical music: Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and ...

  2. www.britannica.com › topic › The-FiveThe Five | Classical, Romantic & Nationalist | Britannica

    The Five, group of five Russian composers— César Cui, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov —who in the 1860s banded together in an attempt to create a truly national school of Russian music, free of the stifling influence of Italian opera, German lieder, and other western European forms.

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  4. www.worldatlas.com › articles › the-five-famous-composers-inThe Five - Famous Composers in History - WorldAtlas

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    • Mily Balakirev. The Five was formed by their leader, Mily Balakirev (1837-1910), who had a passion for Russian nationalism. His musical talents would not go unnoticed as he soon caught the eye of the leading musical figure from his hometown, Alexander Ulybyshev, who authored a biography of the renowned Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and owned a vast musical library.
    • Cesar Antonovich Cui. Cesar Antonovich Cui (1835-1918) was an army officer and a teacher of fortifications. As a young boy in Vilnius, he took piano lessons and started to compose at 14.
    • Petrovich Mussorgsky. Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) started receiving piano lessons at the tender age of 6 from his mother who was a trained pianist.
    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was an officer in the Russian military. He started composing by the time he was ten years old.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky_and_The_FivePyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and The Five - Wikipedia

    In mid- to late-19th-century Russia, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and a group of composers known as The Five had differing opinions as to whether Russian classical music should be composed following Western or native practices.

  6. galaxymusicnotes.com › pages › the-five-5-russian-composersThe Five: Korsakov, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Cui, and Balakirev

    Learn about "The Five," 5 young Russian composers formed and worked together from 1856 through 1870. It consisted of Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, César Cui, and the leader the leader Mily Balakirev.

  7. www.classical-music.com › mighty-handful-five-composersWho were the Mighty Handful?: 19th-century Russian composers, The...

    Jeremy Pound introduces the influential group of 19th-century Russian composers also known as The Five – or The Mighty Handful.

  8. www.wikiwand.com › en › The_Five_(composers)The Five (composers) - Wikiwand

    The Five, also known as the Mighty Handful or The Mighty Five, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create a distinct national style of classical music: Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin.