Musorgsky Eight Essays and an Epilogue 1st Edition by Richard Taruskin 0691224060 9780691224060

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ISBN-10 :  0691224060 

ISBN-13 :  9780691224060

Author: Richard Taruskin 

“It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia’s greatest national composer. . . . [Taruskin’s] tour de force comes with a frontal attack on all the Soviet-bred truisms that for a century have refashioned Musorgsky from what the evidence suggests he was—an aristocrat with an early clinical interest in true-to-life musical portraiture and a later penchant for drinking partners who were both folklore buffs and political reactionaries democrat.”—from the foreword Incorporating both new and now-classic essays, this book for the first time sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context. From this perspective, Richard Taruskin revises fundamentally the composer’s historical and artistic image, in particular debunking the century-old dogmas of Vladimir Stasov, Musorgsky’s first biographer. Here the author offers the most complete explanation of the revision of the opera Boris Godunov, compares it to contemporaneous operas by Chaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, advances a revisionary characterization of Khovanshchina as an aristocratic tragedy informed by a pessimistic view of history, discusses Musorgsky’s use of folklore, and, focusing on Sorochintsi Fair, brings to a climax his refutation of Musorgsky as a protorevolutionary populist. The epilogue is a survey of revisionary productions of Musorgsky’s works at home during the Gorbachev era.

Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue 1st table of contents:

Chapter 1: “Little Star”
Chapter 2: Handel, Shakespeare, and Musorgsky
Chapter 3: Serov and Musorgsky
Chapter 4: The Present in the Past
Chapter 5: Musorgsky versus Musorgsky
Appendix: Folk Texts in Boris Godunov
Chapter 6: Slava!
Chapter 7: The Power of the Black Earth
Appendix: The Khovanshchina Manuscripts
Chapter 8: Sorochintsi Fair Revisited

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