Musorgsky (eBook)

Eight Essays and an Epilogue

Richard Taruskin (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22406-0 (ISBN)

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"e;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."e;-from the forewordIncorporating 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 102 music examples 9 figs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abbreviation (music) • Abraham, Gerald • Afanasy • Alexander Ostrovsky • Alexander Serov • Alexey • A Life for the Tsar • Anachronism • Antihero • Anti-Semitism • Apollon Grigoryev • Aristotle • Art Music • autocracy • Billington, James • Blyma, Franz Xaver • Boris Asafyev • Boris Godunov • Boris Godunov (opera) • Boyar • bureaucrat • Ceausescu, Nicolae • Censorship • Coates, Albert • Composer • Critical edition (opera) • declamation • defection • Duhamel, Antoine • dusha • Emerson, Caryl • Epithet • Farce • Fet, Afanasiy Afanasyevich • First appearance • Free Music School • Fyodor • Genre • Gervinus, Georg Gottfried • Godet, Robert • Gypsy singers • Hector Berlioz • historical drama • historical opera • Historiography • Igor Stravinsky • Imitation • Impresario • Indiana University Press • Intelligentsia • Intonation (music) • Judic, Annie • Julian calendar • Kamarinskaya • Karlinsky, Simon • Kerman, Joseph • Khovanshchina • Laloy, Louis • Leitmotif • Libretto • Liszt, Franz • Literature • Lohengrin (opera) • Ludwig van Beethoven • Lyric Poetry • Malherbe, Charles • Martianus Capella • Melodrama • Mïshetsky, Prince • Modest Mussorgsky • monologue • Mr. • musician • narod • Newmarch, Rosa • Nikolai Gogol • Nobility • Old Believers • Old Style and New Style dates • Olkhovsky, Yuri • Opera • Opera and Drama • Oprichnik • Oprichnina • Orientalism • Parody • Peri, Jacopo • Phrase (music) • Piano-vocal score • Poetry • Populism • Pratsch, Johann Gottfried • Prince Igor • Pro forma • Pronunciation • Prose • Pskov • Publication • pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky • Rathaus, Karol • Realism • Reilly, Edward • Riemann, Hugo • Romanticism • Rossini, Gioacchino • Rubinstein • Rumyantsev, Sergey • Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera) • Russian culture • russian life • Russian Literature • Russian opera • russians • Scribe, Eugène • Sergei Prokofiev • Sergey Solovyov • Shestakova, Lyudmila • Singing • Songs and Dances of Death • Statism • Streltsy • Streltsy Revolts • Surname • The Gypsies (poem) • The Maid of Pskov • The Newspaper • The Oprichnik • The Other Hand • The Realist • The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky) • The Various • Time of Troubles • Tolstaya, Tatyana • To this Day • Transliteration • Turner, Jane • V. • Vakula the Smith • Vernadsky, George • Vissarion Belinsky • Vladimir Nabokov • Vladimir Stasov • vowel • Wagner, Richard • Wiley, Roland John • Writing • Xample • Yugov, Alexey Kuzmich
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22406-4 / 0691224064
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22406-0 / 9780691224060