Title: The life of Musorgsky /
Authors: Emerson, Caryl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich,; Composers Russia Biography
Abstract: "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" songs."--Jacket.