Musorgsky
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 January 2003
- ISBN 9780198165873
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages424 pages
- Size 244x166x33 mm
- Weight 785 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous music examples, 8pp halftone plates 0
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Short description:
This is the largest life-and-works of Musorgsky ever to have appeared outside Russia. Musorgsky created stunning masterpieces in such creations as his opera Boris Godunov and piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition - yet his life was tragic. It is this pathetic tale, interlaced with critical discussion of music, that is this book's concern.
MoreLong description:
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.
The qualities of clarity and thoroughness familiar to readers of Professor Brown's earlier work are also in evidence here ... his style is straightforward and elegant without pretentiousness, apparently aimed at music lovers as much as those with a scholarly interest.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Illustrations
Childhood and early years
The making of a composer: I
The making of a composer: II
The early songs: I
Salammbô
The early songs: II
St John's Night on the Bare Mountain more songs
The Marriage: towards Boris
Boris Godunov: composition and production
Boris Godunov
Life alongside Boris - The Nursery completed, A note on Musorgsky's spelling of his name
Life alongside Boris II: Khovanshchina begun
Two relationships: Pictures at an Exhibition and Sunless
Khovanshchina
Songs and Dances of Death: Last songs
Sorochintsy Fair
Final years
Postlude: the century since
Appendices
Calendar
List of works
Personalia
Select bibliography
Index
