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.
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Music BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1: Arrivals
- CHAPTER 2: The Father Figure
- CHAPTER 3: The Lawyer-Critic
- CHAPTER 4: The Officer and the Doctor
- CHAPTER 5: On Aesthetics and Being Russian
- CHAPTER 6: New Institutions
- CHAPTER 7: First Steps
- CHAPTER 8: The Third Rome: The Clerk and the Midshipman
- CHAPTER 9: Wagner and His Acolyte
- CHAPTER 10: An African Priestess and a Scottish Bride
- CHAPTER 11: Home Is the Sailor
- CHAPTER 12: Life Studies
- CHAPTER 13: Symphonic Pictures and an Abstract
- CHAPTER 14: A French Guest and a Stone One
- CHAPTER 15: A Child and an Aborted Wedding
- CHAPTER 16: Outsiders
- CHAPTER 17: History for the Stage
- CHAPTER 18: An Opera Performed, an Opera Abandoned
- CHAPTER 19: A Shared Apartment …
- CHAPTER 20: … and a Shared Commission
- CHAPTER 21: Three Tsars and a Tyrant
- CHAPTER 22: Toward New Shores
- CHAPTER 23: Distractability
- CHAPTER 24: Dances of Death
- CHAPTER 25: A Chaos of Operas
- CHAPTER 26: Drowning in the Waters
- CHAPTER 27: The Chemist in His Laboratory
- CHAPTER 28: Death by Sunlight
- CHAPTER 29: Heirs and Rebels
- EPILOGUE: The Survivors
- Bibliography
- Index
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
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