The pieces Pictures at an Exhibition are composed by a Russian composer who belonged to this group known as what?
Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Моде́ст Петро́вич Му́соргский ; ] ; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881 ) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
Yuri Shaporin Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (Russian: Юрий (Георгий) Александрович Шапорин ) (November 8 [O.S. October 27] 1887 – 9 December 1966) was a Russian-Ukrainian Soviet composer. His first name is sometimes rendered as Iurii or Yury.