Caryl Emerson

The Life of Musorgsky

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a biography of Russia's greatest musical dramatist, Modest Musorgsky (1839 1881).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9780521485074
• ISBN-10: 052148507X
• Artikelnr.: 22240404

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Childhood and youth (1839
56); 2. Apprenticeship in Petersburg, 1850
60s: composers' evenings and the commune; 3. Conservatories, 'circles', and Musorgsky at the musical edge; 4. 1868
74: Musorgsky and Russian history; 5. The 1870s: Musorgsky and death; 6. Beyond tragedy: the final years; Epilogue: the Musorgsky problem, then and now; Musical appendix: what to look for in Musorgsky's style.