Musorgsky: His Life and Works (Master Musicians Series)
Brown, David
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.
Kategorije:
Godina:
2002
Izdanje:
1
Izdavač:
Oxford University Press
Jezik:
english
Strane:
424
ISBN 10:
0198165870
ISBN 13:
9780198165873
Serije:
The Master Musicians
Fajl:
PDF, 19.04 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2002