Modest Mussorgsky. Operatic Innovator

Among the outstanding masters of culture, who created the glory of Russian national music, a special place belongs to Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881) In many ways, not understood by contemporaries and rejected by them, Mussorgsky only in the twentieth century received a proper assessment of his talent. Modern musicologists and performers believe that none of the Russian composers had such an influence on world musical culture. It is all the more interesting to follow the creative way of the composer, only after the untimely departure of which the Russian artistic community realized to what extent this brilliant person was lonely ...
The book is addressed not only to musicians and experts in classical music, but also to all the history of Russian national culture