Musorgsky His Life And Works - David Brown

Hailed By The York Times Book Review As A No-holds-barred Biography And A State-of-the-art Guide To The Composers Life And Works, This Superb Volume In The Master Musicians Series Offers The First Life-and-works Study Of This Towering Composer Of Nineteenth-century Russian Music To Appear In English For Over A Half Century. David Brown Shows How The Largely Untrained Modest Musorgsky Emerged As A Supreme Musical Dramatist In His First Opera, Boris Godunov. Along With This Impressive Debut And His Much-loved Piano Suite, Pictures At An Exhibition, Musorgsky Produced Some Of The Most Startlingly Novel Music Of The Nineteenth Century.