"I have no use whatever for Mussorgsky. His views may tally with mine, but I have never heard him express an intelligent idea. All in him is flabby and dull. He is, it seems to me, a thorough idiot."
Modest Mussorgsky

January 1, 1970

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Stasov in an 1863 letter to Balakirev.

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