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opera by Mussorgsky

Also known as: “Sorochinskaya yarmarka”

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In Modest Mussorgsky: Life and career
…his opera Sorochinskaya yarmarka (unfinished; Sorochintsy Fair), inspired by Gogol’s tale. As the accompanist of an aging singer, Darya Leonova, Mussorgsky departed on a lengthy concert tour of southern Russia and the Crimean Peninsula. On his return he tried teaching at a small school of music in St. Petersburg.
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