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Title: THE LIFE OF MUSORGSKY
By: Caryl Emerson
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 052148507X
ISBN 13: 9780521485074
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 30 September, 1999
Series: Musical Lives
Pages: 218
Description: This book, first published in 1999, is a biography of Russia's greatest musical dramatist, Modest Musorgsky (1839-81).
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 22 b/w illus.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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ESSAYS IN RUSSIAN LITERARY AND MUSICAL CULTURE (HB)
ESTRANGEMENT REVISITED (PB)
LIFE OF MUSORGSKY (HB)
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MODEST MUSORGSKY AND BORIS GODUNOV (HB)
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PROBLEMS OF DOSTOEVSKY'S POETICS (PB)
RABELAIS AND HIS WORLD, REVISED EDITION
RETHINKING BAKHTIN (PB)
SELECTED ESSAYS (PB)
SPEECH GENRES AND OTHER LATE ESSAYS (PB)
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIAN LITERATURE
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIAN LITERATURE (HB)
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIAN LITERATURE (PB)
THE DIALOGIC IMAGINATION (PB)
THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS OF MIKHAIL BAKHTIN (PB)
THE LETTER KILLERS CLUB (PB)
THE NORMS OF ANSWERABILITY (HB)
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