Bücher von Richard Taruskin

Incorporating essays, this book sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context. It also presents a survey of revisionary productions of Musorgsky's works at home during the Gorbachev era.

Shows how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. This book focuses on four individual composers, each characterized both as a self-consciously Russian creator and as a European.