Musorgsky : his life and works
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Musorgsky : his life and works
（The master musicians series）
Oxford University Press, 2002
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List of works: p. 371-375
Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-385) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- APPENDICES
- INDEX
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