Biographies & Memoirs / Biography / Modest Mussorgsky his life and works by Em de Calvocoressi

• Book Title: Modest Mussorgsky his life and works
• Author: Em de Calvocoressi
• ISBN: mw0010121815
• Publisher: Rockliff
• Year Published: 1956
• Our Price: £27.50 GBP ($45.38 USD)
• Description: Rockliff 1956: first edition: blue cloth hardcover: 321 pages including index: Black and white photographic illustration: extracts from musicals scores. Synopsis: A wide ranging biography of the Russian composer, Mussorgsky, including photographic reproductions of the composer and his contemporaries and a page of costume designs by Leon Bakst for Boris Godunof. Contents: -- Chapter 1. The autobiographical documents. Chapter 2. Ancestry, childhood, early years. Chapter 3. 1857 - 1862. Chapter 4. Mussorgsky in 1862. Chapter 5. 1863 - 1867. Chapter 6. Mussorgsky at the end of 1867. Chapter 7. 1868. Chapter 8. 1869 - 1872. Chapter 9. 1873. Chapter 10. The first Boris Godunof . Chapter 11. 1872 - 1873. Chapter 12. Boris Godunof on the stage. Chapter 13. 1874 - 1881. Chapter 14. Khovanshchina and the Sorotchintsi Fair. Chapter 15. Posthumous fate of the works. Chapters 16, 17, 18. Technique and style. Chapter 19. conclusions. Condition: used: no dust jacket: some marking to cover : corners and spine ends bumped: book slightly misshapen but still firm: contents very clean: overall acceptable and collectable
• Condition: Used- Acceptable
• Dustcover: No
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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