The Life of Musorgsky
Caryl (Princeton University, New Jersey) Emerson
Cambridge University Press, 1999
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This book, first published in 1999, is a biography of Russia's greatest musical dramatist, Modest Musorgsky, known for his opera Boris Godunov, for his innovative realistic art songs, and for 'Pictures at an Exhibition'. It emphasizes the psychological and economic factors that contributed to the composer's remarkable autodidactic rise and tragic, premature end.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521485074
- ISBN-10
- 052148507X
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1999
- Publication date
- 1999-09-30
- Pages
- 218
- Dimensions
- 143x209x14
- Weight
- 294