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English National Opera Guide 48: Khovanshchina (The Khovansky Affair) - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

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.

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English National Opera Guide 48: - About the Author:

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.

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  • Language

    Russian

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Book Binding

    Paperback

  • Book Format

    Parallel Text

  • Book Genre

    Drama

  • Book ISBN

    9780714544496

  • Book Page Count

    128

  • Book Publication Date

    07/02/2011

  • Book Publisher

    Alma Classics

  • Delivery Estimate

    This is a Print on Demand title. Please allow up to 14 days for delivery.

  • Product Supplier

    Macmillan distribution

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