Musorgsky

His Life and Works
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-816587-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 785 g

Reihe: Master Musicians Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Über Autor(innen)

(Emeritus Professor of Musicology, University of Southampton)