The Life Of Musorgsky

Author : Caryl Emerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521485074
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Musorgsky written by Caryl Emerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199772924
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musorgsky written by David Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691016238
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musorgsky written by Richard Taruskin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-27 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Calvocoressi, M.D.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780822607182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mussorgsky written by Calvocoressi, M.D. and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michel D. Calvocoressi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modest Mussorgsky, His Life and Works written by Michel D. Calvocoressi and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1570914923
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictures at an Exhibition written by Anna Harwell Celenza and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests how the death of a friend, Victor Hartmann, inspired the music of Modest Mussorgsky in St. Petersburg in the 1870s.

Author : Michael Russ
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521386074
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition written by Michael Russ and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book Boris Godunov written by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1968 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Tumanov
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888643285
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book The Life and Artistry of Maria Olenina-d'Alheim written by Alexander Tumanov and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1908, Maria and her husband, music critic and writer Pierre d'Alheim, established the House of Song (Dom pesni in Russia, La Maison du Lied in France). Through her performances, his lectures, their publishing activities and by hosting international competitions, the House of Song influenced the musical climate of Europe.".

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224064
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musorgsky written by Richard Taruskin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer. . . . [Taruskin's] tour de force comes with a frontal attack on all the Soviet-bred truisms that for a century have refashioned Musorgsky from what the evidence suggests he was—an aristocrat with an early clinical interest in true-to-life musical portraiture and a later penchant for drinking partners who were both folklore buffs and political reactionaries democrat."—from the foreword Incorporating both new and now-classic essays, this book for the first time sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context. From this perspective, Richard Taruskin revises fundamentally the composer's historical and artistic image, in particular debunking the century-old dogmas of Vladimir Stasov, Musorgsky's first biographer. Here the author offers the most complete explanation of the revision of the opera Boris Godunov, compares it to contemporaneous operas by Chaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, advances a revisionary characterization of Khovanshchina as an aristocratic tragedy informed by a pessimistic view of history, discusses Musorgsky's use of folklore, and, focusing on Sorochintsi Fair, brings to a climax his refutation of Musorgsky as a protorevolutionary populist. The epilogue is a survey of revisionary productions of Musorgsky's works at home during the Gorbachev era.