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Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure
Professor Stephen Walsh
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Description for Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure
Hardback. The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty Handful', but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as 'the great little heap' - gave rise to one of the most fascinating and colourful stories in all musical history. This title tells their story. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 170 x 40. Weight in Grams: 784.
The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty Handful', but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as 'the great little heap' - gave rise to one of the most fascinating and colourful stories in all musical history.
Stephen Walsh, author of a major biography of their direct successor, Stravinsky, has written an absorbing account of Musorgsky and his circle - Borodin, Cui, Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov. With little or no musical education they created works of lasting significance - Musorgsky's Boris Godunov, Borodin's Prince Igor and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571245628
SKU
V9780571245628
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99-12
About Professor Stephen Walsh
Stephen Walsh is a Professor of Music at Cardiff University, and the author of several books on music. The first volume of his major biography of Stravinsky - Stravinsky: A Creative Spring - won the Royal Philharmonic Society prize in 2000. Volume Two - Stravinsky: The Second Exile - was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the ten ... Read more
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