Khovanshchina (The Khovansky Affair): (English National Opera Guide 48) - Couverture souple

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714544493 ISBN 13 : 9780714544496

Editeur : Overture Publishing, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Mussorgsky's last opera dramatizes the conspiracy of Prince Khovansky against Tsar Peter the Great, and the epic ends with the exile, murder and suicide of all the power groups of old Russia. When Musorgsky died in 1881, it was unfinished, and Rimsky-Korsakov completed it; Ravel and Stravinsky made another version for Diaghilev in 1911; in 1959 Shostakovich went back to the original and rediscovered a masterpiece. Caryl Emerson offers a provocative reading of Mussorgsky's achievement. Gerard McBurney relates the non-European inspiration in the score to Mussorgsky's conception of history, while Rosamund Bartlett describes the cultural impetus for his historical vision.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881) was a Russian composer during the romantic period. Many of his works, such as the opera Boris Godunov, were inspired by Russian history and folklore among other nationalist themes.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Overture Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0714544493
• ISBN 13: 9780714544496
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112