Musorgsky and his circle : a Russian musical adventure /

Musorgsky and his circle : a Russian musical adventure / Stephen Walsh.

"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...

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Main Author: Walsh, Stephen, 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Faber & Faber, 2013.
Subjects:
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, > 1839-1881.
Moguchai︠a︡ kuchka (Group of composers)
Music > Russia > 19th century > History and criticism.
Music > Russia > History and criticism.
Music.
Nationalism in music.
Musik > historia.
Russia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Arrivals
  • 2. The Father Figure
  • 3. The Lawyer-Critic
  • 4. The Office and the Doctor
  • 5. On Aesthetics and Being Russian
  • 6. New Institutions
  • 7. First Steps
  • 8. The Third Rome: The Clerk and the Midshipman
  • 9. Wagner and His Acolyte
  • 10. An African Priestess and a Scottish Bride
  • 11. Home Is the Sailor
  • 12. Life Studies
  • 13. Symphonic Pictures and an Abstract
  • 14. A French Guest and a Stone One
  • 15. A Child and an Aborted Wedding
  • 16. Outsiders
  • 17. History for the Stage
  • 18. An Opera Performed, an Opera Abandoned
  • 19. A Shared Apartment ...
  • 20. ... and a Shared Commission
  • 21. Three Tsars and a Tyrant
  • 22. Toward New Shores
  • 23. Distractability
  • 24. Dances of Death
  • 25. A Chaos of Operas
  • 26. Drowning in the Waters
  • 27. The Chemist in His Laboratory
  • 28. Death by Sunlight
  • 29. Heirs and Rebels.

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