Musorgsky, Khovanshchina. Reconstruction of the Orchestration On this home page, you can read about the work of the Musorgsky expert Janos Bojti and learn some important issues about Musorgsky's opera, Khovanshchina. Only two extracts of the orchestration of Khovanshchina were made in the composer's lifetime. After his death, the contemporary and friend of Musorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov then, in the 20th century, Shostakovich orchestrated and revised Musorgsky's opera. The version of Rimsky-Korsakov and the one of Shostakovich are rather far from the spirit of the original piece. This home page gives information about the formation of a new Khovanshchina version nearest to the original. Khovanshchina.com~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
