Musorgsky : His Life and Works.

By:

Brown, David

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Master musicians seriesPublication details: Oxford University Press, USA, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (410 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199772926
0199772924

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Biographies

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Musorgsky : His Life and Works.DDC classification:

780.92

LOC classification:

ML410.M97

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Preface; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Dates; 1 Childhood and Early Years; 2 The Making of a Composer I; 3 The Making of a Composer II; 4 The Early Songs I; 5 Salammbô; 6 The Early Songs II; 7 St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain: More Songs; 8 The Marriage: Towards Boris; 9 Boris Godunov: Composition and Production; 10 Boris Godunov: The Music; 11 Life alongside Boris I: The Nursery Completed; 12 Life alongside Boris II: Khovanshchina Begun; 13 Two Relationships: Pictures at an Exhibition and Sunless; 14 Khovanshchina.

15 Songs and Dances of Death: Last Songs16 Sorochintsy Fair; 17 Final Years; 18 Postlude: The Century Since; Appendices; A: Calendar; B: List of Works; C: Personalia; D: Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

Summary: Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian music. Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century. Indeed, this is the largest such study of Musorgsky to have appeared outside Russia. Brown shows how Musorgsky, though essentially an amateur with no systematic training in composition, emerged in his first opera, Boris Godunov, as a supreme musical dramatist. Indeed, in this opera, and in certain of his piano pieces in Pictures at an Exhibition.

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Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian music. Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century. Indeed, this is the largest such study of Musorgsky to have appeared outside Russia. Brown shows how Musorgsky, though essentially an amateur with no systematic training in composition, emerged in his first opera, Boris Godunov, as a supreme musical dramatist. Indeed, in this opera, and in certain of his piano pieces in Pictures at an Exhibition.

English.

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