The Life of Musorgsky

by Caryl Emerson

$50 · Offered by Swan's Fine Books

First edition

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999 . First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 194 pp. Fine / near fine. Item #CNJL2538 Modest Musorgsky is Russia's greatest musical dramatist. When he died in 1881 in St. Petersburg at the age of forty-two, in poverty and relative obscurity, he was known for a single opera, 'Boris Godunov', and a handful of eccentric 'realistic'

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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