{"product_id":"9780199735525","title":"Musorgsky : His Life and Works (Composers Across Cultures)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailed by the New York Times Book Review as a \"no-holds-barred biography\" and \"a state-of-the-art guide to the composer's life and works,\" this superb volume in the Master Musicians series offers the first life-and-works study of this towering composer of nineteenth-century Russian music to appear in English for over a half century. David Brown shows how the largely untrained Modest Musorgsky emerged as a supreme musical dramatist in his first opera, Boris Godunov. Along with this impressive debut and his much-loved piano suite, Pictures at an Exhibition, Musorgsky produced some of the most startlingly novel music of the nineteenth century. He also displayed a prodigious gift for uncovering the emotional content of a text in his highly original song compositions. While illuminating Musorgsky's work, Brown paints a detailed portrait of a fitful composer who could apply himself with superhuman intensity when the inspiration was upon him, but who deteriorated into alcoholism and died tragically young.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261809144043,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":102.54,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780199735525-1.jpg?v=1781612935","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9780199735525","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}