moussorgsky, however, had more, richer, and a greater variety of material to work with than Puccini.
"A Second Book of Operas"
Henry Edward Krehbiel
Were it not for considerations of this sort it would be surprising to contemplate the fact that moussorgsky has been more written and talked about in France than he was in his native Russia, and that even his friend Rimsky-Korsakoff, to whose revision of the score "Boris Godounoff" owes its continued existence, has been subjected to much rude criticism because of his work, though we can only think of it as taken up in a spirit of affection and admiration.
"A Second Book of Operas"
Henry Edward Krehbiel
The various scores of the opera which have been printed show that moussorgsky, with all his genius, was at sea even when it came to applying the principles of the Young Russian School, of which he is set down as a strong prop, to dramatic composition.
"A Second Book of Operas"
Henry Edward Krehbiel