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Author: Michel Dimitri CalvocoressiPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Modest Mussorgsky, His Life and Works, by M. D. Calvocoressi. [Foreword by Ethel Calvocoressi and Gerald Abraham].
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Author: Michel Dimitri CalvocoressiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Modest Mussorgsky, His Life and Works
Author: Michel D. CalvocoressiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Musorgsky
Author: David BrownPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199772924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
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, Musorgsky produced some of the most startlingly novel music of the whole nineteenth century. He was also one of the most original of all song composers, with a prodigious gift for uncovering the emotional content of a text. As Brown illuminates Musorgsky's work, he also paints a detailed portrait of the composer's life. He describes how, unlike the systematic and disciplined Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky was a fitful composer. When the inspiration was upon him, he could apply himself with superhuman intensity, as he did when composing the initial version of Boris Godunov. Sadly, Musorgsky deteriorated in his final years, suffering periods of inner turmoil, when his alcoholism would be out of control. Finally, unemployed and all but destitute, he died at age forty-two. His failure to complete his two remaining operas, Khovanshchina and Sorochintsy Fair, Brown concludes, is one of music's greatest tragedies. Written by one of the leading authorities on nineteenth-century Russian composers, Musorgsky is the finest available biography of this giant of Russian music.
Modest Mussorgsky, His Life and Works
Author: Michel D. CalvocoressiPublisher: London : Rockliff
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Modest Mussorgsky, His Life and Works
Author: Michel D. CalvocoressiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Modest Mussorgsky
Author: MussorgskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Mussorgsky-Pictures at an exhibition-a night on the bare mountain.>KHOVANSHCHINA
The Life of Musorgsky
Author: Caryl EmersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521485074
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Modest Musorgsky is Russia's greatest musical dramatist. When he died in 1881 in St Petersburg at the age of forty-two, in poverty and relative obscurity, he was known for a single opera, Boris Godunov and a handful of eccentric 'realistic' songs set to prosaic Russian texts. He had no institutional connections, no 'degree', no family of his own, not even a permanent address. Except for Franz Liszt, no composer of stature knew of him outside Russia. Through the loyal (if controversial) intervention of his friends, his works survived in various editings into the early twentieth century, when revivals and evolving musical tastes restored him to new life. This account of his life, first published in 1999, emphasizes the psychological and economic factors that contributed to the composer's remarkable rise and tragic, premature end and is the first brief biography in English to make use of materials published in the new, de-Sovietized Russian academic climate.
Musorgsky
Author: Richard TaruskinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691016238
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Incorporating both new and now-classic essays, this book sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context, elevating the composer's image over other biographers. Among the book's many offerings are the most complete explanation of the revision of the opera "Boris Godunov", and a revisionary characterization of "Khovanshchina" as an aristocratic tragedy resulting from a pessimistic view of history. Includes 102 music examples.
Pictures at an Exhibition
Author: Modeste MussorgskyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780846431992
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov
Author: Caryl EmersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521369763
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Caryl Emerson and Robert Oldani take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov.