Physical Description:print xiv, 469 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-448) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Arrivals. Balakirev ; Russia ; The kuchka -- The father figure. Glinka andhis operas -- Lawyer-critic. Vladimir Stasov ; Belinsky -- The officer and the doctor. Musorgsky ; Borodin ; Dargomïzhsky ; Study with Balakirev -- On aesthetics and being Russian. Chernïshevsky ; Stasov and theory ; Modes of nationalism -- New institutions. Anton Rubinstein ; The RMS and the conservatory ; Reactions -- First steps. Oedipus ; King Lear ; Prisoner of the Caucasus ; Songs and passion -- The third Rome : the clerk and the midshipman. Moscow ; Folk song ; Herzen ; Emancipation ; Musorgsky at the ministry ; Rimsky-Korsakov -- Wagner andhis acolyte. Wagner in St. Petersburg ; Serov and Judith ; How the circle responded -- An African priestess and a Scottish bride. The commune ; Salammbô ; Cui the music critic ; William Ratcliff -- Home is the sailor. Musorgsky songs ; Rimsky-Korsakov returns ; His First symphony ; Rogneda ; Bogatyrs ; Balakirev's folk-song collection ; Stone guest begun -- Life studies. Romances and song portraits ; Musorgskyand politics ; Balakirev in Prague ; The kuchka named -- Symphonic pictures and an abstract. Borodin's First symphony ; Tamara ; St. John's Night on Bald Mountain ; Sadko -- A French guest and a Stone one. Balakirev at the RMS ; Berlioz in St. Petersburg ; The classicist ; More song portraits ; Stone guest and the circle -- A child and an aborted wedding. Musorgskyand children ; "With Nyanya" ; Marriage -- Outsiders. Antar ; Tchaikovsky and the circle ; Borodin songs ; Lohengrin at the Maryinsky -- History for the stage. History plays ; Maid of Pskov begun ; Boris Godunov -- An opera performed, an opera abandoned. William Ratcliff staged ; Prince Igor conceived ; Prince Igor dropped ; Balakirev dismissed ; Islamey ; "The peep show" ; Nursery -- A shared apartment... Balakirev in decline ; Boris rejected ; Boris revised ; Power of the fiend ; Maid of Pskov ; Borodin's Second symphony -- ...And a shared commission. Professor Rimsky-Korsakov ; The collective Mlada ; Stone guest staged ; Research on Khovanshchina -- Three tsars and a tyrant. Maid of Pskov staged ; Boris excerpted ; Work on Khovanshchina ; Angelo -- Toward new shores. Boris staged "complete" ; Golenishchev-Kutuzov ; Sunless ; Pictures from an exhibition -- Distractability. Rimsky writes fugues and a string quartet ; Prince Igor resumed ; More Khovanshchina -- Dances of death. Musorgsky the idealist and the drinker ; Naumov ; Songs and dances of death ; Rimsky-Korsakov as editor -- A chaos of operas. Angelo staged ; Work on Prince Igor and Khovanshchina ; Sorochintsï fair ; Rimsky's wind chamber music -- Drowning in the waters. Opinions of the kuchka ; Balakirev rises ; Musorgsky sinks ; May night -- The chemist in his laboratory. Musorgsky as accompanist ; On tour with Leonova ; Borodin's First quartet ; Prince Igor continued ; Khovanshchina almost finished -- Death by sunlight. In central Asia ; Fairy tale and Sinfonietta ; Snow maiden ; Musorgsky's last days -- Heirs and rebels. Musorgsky buried ; Tamara completed ; Borodin's Second quartet and Third symphony ; Glazunov and Belyayev ; The kuchka ends --Epilogue. The survivors.
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