Summary: "The St. Petersburg School" The Russian Nationalist “St Petersburg School” is examplified by a group known in Russian as Moguchaya kuchka, which looseluy translates to "Mighty Bunch" – we also know the group under other names: the Mighty Five, The Mighty Handful or simply the Five - five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create distinct Russian classical music. Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin all lived in Saint Petersburg, and collaborated from 1856 to 1870. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/pcast279
