Mussorgsky Triumphal March The Capture of Kars

Oh, Mussorgsky! In 1880, in one of the last creative gasps of his ruinous existence, responding to a commission for music to celebrate of 25 years of Tsar Alexander II, he rejigged his "Procession of the Nobles" from the failed opera-ballet "Mlada" by converting the middle bars to vaguely Kurdish or Turkish folk-sounding music. He called the results The Capture of Kars". It never played. He and Alexander were both dead within a year.
Mussorgsky apparently made his own orchestration of the earlier version and Rimsky-Korsakov and Pavel Lamm both took a crack at improving his later version. None of the results corresponds with the piano edition. Which I'm trying to find on mp3. And help end my current obsession with The Big M (sorry, Frank Mahovlich).
Yvegeny Svetlanov, USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra

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"in one of the last creative gasps of his ruinous existence"
You have a wonderful way with words. Best video detail text in all of RUclips!

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Absolutely Genius - Modest Petrovitch Mussorgsky - Proud of Russian culture.

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Mlada and Procession of the Nobles were written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Mussorgsky wasn't rejigging anything. Different pieces, different composers.

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What are you talking about??? These piece is composed by Mussorgsky.