Musorgsky & His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure by Stephen Walsh

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239mm x 160mm x 39mm

Pages: 496

The Mighty Handful of five Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s had little musical education, but they created some of the most popular music in the classical repertoire, including Borodins Prince Igor and Rimsky-Korsakovs Sheherazade. Walshs study analyses how this rare example of a creative musical collective worked and reveals the crucial role played by their mentor, the art historian Vladimir Stasov, in fostering Russian nationalist music.