Musorgsky and His Circle

A Russian Musical Adventure

By: Stephen Walsh

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Hardcover | 7 November 2013 | Edition Number 1

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496 Pages

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An accessible and thought-provoking biography of Musorgsky and his circle, creators of some of the best-known and most admired Russian music of the nineteenth century.

The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty Handful', but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as 'the great little heap' - gave rise to one of the most fascinating and colourful stories in all musical history. Stephen Walsh, author of a major biography of their direct successor, Stravinsky, has written an absorbing account of Musorgsky and his circle - Borodin, Cui, Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov. With little or no musical education they created works of lasting significance - Musorgsky's Boris Godunov, Borodin's Prince Igor and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade. Written with deep understanding and panache, The Kuchka, is highly engaging and a significant contribution to cultural history.

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