{"product_id":"musorgsky-eight-essays-and-an-epilogue-9780691016238","title":"Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBoris Godunov\u003c\/i\u003e, compares it to contemporaneous operas by Chaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, advances a revisionary characterization of \u003ci\u003eKhovanshchina\u003c\/i\u003e as an aristocratic tragedy informed by a pessimistic view of history, discusses Musorgsky's use of folklore, and, focusing on \u003ci\u003eSorochintsi Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Taruskin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 449\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.23h x 6.10w x 1.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691016238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Taruskin\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include \u003ci\u003eOpera and Drama in Russia, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e, and a new book with Princeton University Press, \u003ci\u003eDefining Russia Musically\u003c\/i\u003e (see page 11 of this catalog).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40214526886003,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":57.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_38cd437d-d670-4db5-b0f2-772851f7f358.jpg?v=1656509225","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/musorgsky-eight-essays-and-an-epilogue-9780691016238","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}