Which group of composers was Cui a member of?
The Five
The Four
The Seven
The Trio
Answer
The Five, also known as the Mighty Handful, was a group of Russian composers active in the 1860s and 1870s. The group consisted of Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Alexander Borodin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Modest Mussorgsky. They were united by their shared belief in the importance of Russian folk music and their rejection of Western European musical conventions.
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