Studies in Russian music : critical essays on the most important of Rimsky-Korsakov's operas, Borodin's "Prince Igor," Dargomizhsky's "Stone guest," etc. : with chapters on Glinka, Mussorgsky, Balakirev and Tchaikovsky / by Gerald Abraham.
| Author/creator |
Abraham, Gerald, 1904-1988 author. |
| Other author/creator | Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London : W. Reeves, [1935?] |
| Description | vi, 355 pages : music, portraits ; 21 cm |
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| Contents | The essence of Russian music -- Glinka and his achievement -- The folk-song element -- "The stone guest" -- Tolstoy and Mussorgsky -- Borodin as a symphonist -- "Prince Igor" -- Rimsky-Korsakov's first opera -- Rimsky-Korsakov's Gogol operas -- "Snegurochka" ("Snow maiden") -- "Sadko" -- "The Tsar's bride"-- "Kitezh" -- "The golden cockerel" -- Balakirev: a flawed genius -- Tchaïkovsky revalued. |
| Abstract | "Although this is a book of separate essays, it is, I hope, given a certain unity by the fact that each chapter deals with some product or aspect of the "classical" period of Russian music: the music of Glinka and, more particularly, that written in the half-century following his death. I have almost ignored Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, preferring to concentrate on the less discussed members of the "mighty handful," above all on Rimsky-Korsakov who has hitherto been unaccountably neglected by non-Russian critics. But in these studies of some of Korsakov's operas I have concerned myself only with certain aspects of them -- perhaps too exclusively -- in the attempt to investigate the working of the composer's musical mind." -- Preface. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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