Walsh, Stephen 2013. Musorgsky and his circle. London: Faber & Faber. |
Abstract
Musorgsky and His Circle is an accessible and thought-provoking intellectual biography of the five creators of some of the best-known and most admired Russian music of the nineteenth century. 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 intriguing 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, Rimsky-Korsakov and the art historian Vladimir Stasov. With little or no musical education they created works of lasting significance - Musorgsky's Boris Godunov, Borodin's Prince Igor and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade. Written with deep understanding and panache, this engaging biography is a significant contribution to cultural history.
Item Type: | Book |
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Book Type: | Authored Book |
Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Music |
Subjects: | M Music and Books on Music > M Music |
Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
ISBN: | 9780571245628 |
Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2021 11:15 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/38624 |
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