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Zusatztext This does a good job of putting those red-blooded melodies into context - from a childhood spent listening to his nurse's folk tales, to his death surrounded by unfinished potential masterpieces. Informationen zum Autor David Brown is Professor of Musicology Emeritus at the University of Southampton. The editor of the New Grove Russian Masters series, he is one of the leading authorities on nineteenth-century Russian music. Klappentext Childhood and early years -- The making of a composer I -- The making of a composer II -- The early songs I -- Salammbo -- The early songs II -- St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain: more songs -- The marriage: towards Boris -- Boris Godunov: composition and production -- Boris Godunov: the music -- Life alongside Boris I: The nursery completed -- Life alongside Boris II: Khovanshchina begun -- Two relationships: Pictures at an exhibition and Sunless -- Khovanshchina -- Songs and dances of death: last songs -- Sorochintsy Fair -- Final years -- Postlude: the century since. Zusammenfassung 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....
