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The Five
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circle of five prominent 19th-century Russian composers
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- Has part
- César Cui
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- The Mighty Handful
- topic's main category
- Category:The Five (composers)
- native label
- Могучая кучка
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Encyclopedic overview
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 Alexander Borodin. They lived in Saint Petersburg and collaborated from 1856 to 1870.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Five” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.