| Contents |
1 Arrivals -- 2 The Father Figure -- 3 The Lawyer-Critic -- 4 The Office and the Doctor -- 5 On Aesthetics and Being Russian -- 6 New Institutions -- 7 First Steps -- 8 The Third Rome: The Clerk and the Midshipman -- 9 Wagner and His Acolyte -- 10 An African Priestess and a Scottish Bride -- 11 Home Is the Sailor -- 12 Life Studies -- 13 Symphonic Pictures and an Abstract -- 14 A French Guest and a Stone One -- 15 A Child and an Aborted Wedding -- 16 Outsiders -- 17 History for the Stage -- 18 An Opera Performed, an Opera Abandoned -- 19 A Shared Apartment ... -- 20 ... and a Shared Commission -- 21Three Tsars and a Tyrant. |
| Contents |
22 Toward New Shores -- 23 Distractability -- 24 Dances of Death -- 25 A Chaos of Operas -- 26 Drowning in the Waters -- 27 The Chemist in His Laboratory -- 28 Death by Sunlight -- 29 Heirs and Rebels. |
| Abstract |
"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."--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9780571245628 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0571245625 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780571311149 (ePub ebook) |
| ISBN | 0571311148 (ePub ebook) |
| ISBN | 0307272443 (Cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780307272447 (Cloth) |
