Which of the following statements about this influential group of Russian composers are true and which are not? See how you did by clicking on the "?". Good Luck!!!
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Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov were the founders of the Mighty Five. |
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The purpose of the Mighty Five was to propagate international music. |
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Mikhail Glinka wrote the first Russian opera on a Russian subject: "A Life for the Czar." |
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Mily Balakirev was a graduate of Russia's most influential music conservatory. |
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Cesar Cui was a member of the Five who held on to his "day job" as an army engineer and treated composition as a hobby. |
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Only one of the Five, Alexander Borodin, attended a university. |
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Modest Mussorgsky would write a memoir in his 60's, detailing the intrigues of the Five. The book became an international best-seller. |
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was a naval officer who came from an aristocratic family and who could play (barely) the piano. |
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If you had needed a prescription filled, Alexander Borodin could have done it. |
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Balakirev eventually broke all ties with the Five and took a job with a railroad company. |
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