9780198165873

Musorgsky

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780198165873

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This is not only the first life-and-works on Musorgsky in English for over half a century but also the largest such study of the composer ever to have appeared outside Russia. Mussorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth century Russian music - but also one of the most tragic. Largely an amateur with no systematic training in composition, he nevertheless emerged in his first opera, Boris Godunov, as a supreme musical dramatist, presenting here (and in certain of his piano pieces in Pictures at an Exhibition) some of the most startlingly original of all song composers, with a prodigious gift for uncovering the emotional content of a text. His failure to complete his two remaining operas, Khovanshchina and Sorochintsy Fair, before his premature death from alcohol poisoning is one of music's greatest tragedies.

ISBN-13

9780198165873

ISBN-10

0198165870

Weight

1.70 Pounds

Dimensions

9.62 x 1.33 x 6.54 In

List Price

$110.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

424 pages

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published On

2002-12-05



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