Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 620 g
Reihe: Composers Across Cultures
His Life and Works
Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 620 g
Reihe: Composers Across Cultures
ISBN: 978-0-19-973552-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "no-holds-barred biography" and "a state-of-the-art guide to the composer's life and works," this superb volume in the Master Musicians series offers the first life-and-works study of this towering composer of nineteenth-century Russian music to appear in English for over a half century. David Brown shows how the largely untrained Modest Musorgsky emerged as a supreme musical dramatist in his first opera, Boris
Godunov. Along with this impressive debut and his much-loved piano suite, Pictures at an Exhibition, Musorgsky produced some of the most startlingly novel music of the nineteenth century. He also displayed a prodigious gift for uncovering the emotional content of a text in his highly original song
compositions. While illuminating Musorgsky's work, Brown paints a detailed portrait of a fitful composer who could apply himself with superhuman intensity when the inspiration was upon him, but who deteriorated into alcoholism and died tragically young.