Six great Russian composers : Glinka, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabin : their lives and works / by Donald Brook.
| Author/creator | Brook, Donald |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Rockliff, 1947, ©1946. |
| Description | x, 193 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Glinka. Founder of the Russian nationalist school ; Childhood ; Dilettante ; Charles Mayer ; Civil servant ; Man-about-town ; Libertine ; "Decembrist rising" ; Social life ; Italy ; Berlin ; Early compositions ; Pushkin ; Zhukovsky ; Marriage ; A Life for the Tsar ; Kapellmeister ; Domestic troubles ; Ukraine ; Kukolnik ; Separation ; Russlan and Ludmilla ; Paris ; Spain ; Molensk ; Warsaw ; Night in Madrid ; Kamarinskaya ; "Strictly dishonourable" intentions ; Paris again ; St. Petersburg ; Berlin ; Death ; The published works of Glinka -- Borodin. "The five" ; St. Petersburg ; Unusually intelligent boy ; First attempts at composition ; Academy of medicine ; Chamber music group ; Physician ; European tour ; Heidelberg ; Mussorgsky ; Balakirev ; First symphony ; Marriage ; Rimsky-Korsakov ; Borodin in his laboratory ; Debut as a composer ; The Bogatyrs ; Songs ; Prince Igor ; Mlada ; Borodin's home ; His hospitality ; Second symphony ; Germany ; Liszt ; In the Steppes of Central Asia ; Paraphrases ; Illness ; Belgium ; Petite Suite ; Third symphony ; Sudden death ; Prince Igor ; Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazounov ; Prince Igor in England ; The unfinished third symphony ; The published works of Borodin -- Mussorgsky. Inspired by the proletariat ; The first modern realist in music ; Karevo ; Early days ; Cadet school ; Subaltern ; Balakirev ; Nervous disorder ; Abnormality ; Humanitarian ; Civil servant ; Communal life ; Songs ; Drink ; Savishna ; Night on the Bare Mountain ; Marriage ; Boris Godunov ; Sharing with Rimsky-Korsakov ; Personality ; Mlada ; Khovanshchina ; Technique in art ; The artist's vocation ; Repin on Mussorgsky's insobriety ; The reception of Boris Godunov ; Synopsis of the opera ; Pictures from an Exhibition ; The Sunless Cycle ; The Fair of Sorotchintsy ; Songs and Dances of Death ; "A physical wreck" ; Tour of Southern Russia ; Mussorgsky's credo ; Epilepsy ; Death ; Khovanshchina completed by Rimsky-Korsakov ; The Fair of Sorotchintsy ; The published works of Mussorgsky -- Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky and the snobs ; Childhood ; Abnormal sensitivity ; School of jurisprudence ; Ministry of justice ; Lack of confidence ; St. Petersburg conservatoire ; First experience at conducting ; Overture to The Storm ; Moscow conservatoire ; First symphony ; Nicholas Rubinstein ; The Voevoda ; Desiree Artot ; Fate ; Undine ; Romeo and Juliet ; Second symphony ; The Tempest ; The Opritchnik ; A competition ; First piano concerto ; Tchaikovsky's anger with Rubinstein ; Third symphony ; Depression ; Swan Lake ; Paris ; Francesca da Rimini ; Bayreuth ; Vakula the Smith ; Nadejda von Meck ; Sexual abnormality ; An extraordinary love-affair ; Marriage ; Despair ; Attempt at suicide ; Clarens ; Annuity ; Italy ; Fourth symphony ; The programme of the fourth symphony ; Violin concerto ; Resignation ; The Maid of Orleans ; Eugene Onegin ; Synopsis of Eugene Onegin ; Second piano concerto ; Rome ; Berlin ; Third suite for orchestra ; Manfred ; Tchaikovsky settles down ; His daily routine ; The programme of Manfred ; The Caucasus ; The Sorceress ; Tour of western Europe ; Tchaikovsky meets Brahms, Grieg and Ethel Smyth ; His impressions ; Visit to London ; Tchaikovsky's garden ; Fifth symphony ; Hamlet ; The Sleeping Beauty ; Second tour of western Europe ; Pique Dame ; End of his friendship with Madame von Meck ; Visit to America ; Casse Noisette ; The Voevoda (symphonic ballad) ; Further travels in Europe ; Mood of despair ; The Pathetique symphony ; Visit to England ; Death ; The published works of Tchaikovsky -- Rimsky-Korsakov. Early days ; Corps of naval cadets ; Episode at sea ; Balakirev ; Attempt at a symphony ; Rimsky-Korsakov in England ; London ; The Baltic ; American waters ; St. Petersburg and the Balakirev circle ; First symphony ; Overture on Three Russian Themes ; Fantasia on Serbian Themes ; Sadko ; Antar-Pskovityanka (Ivan the Terrible) ; An amazing offer ; Professorship ; Pisa and Vienna ; Marriage ; Inspector of naval bands ; Third symphony ; Debut as a conductor ; Paraphrases ; May Night ; Snyegurochka (The Snow Maiden) ; Colour and keys ; Skazka ; Another appointment ; Capriccio Espagnol ; Sheherazade ; Paris ; Mlada ; Melancholia ; Christmas Eve ; Sadko ; Disturbance at a rehearsal ; The Tsar'a Bride ; Tsar Saltan ; Servilia ; Kashchei ; Pan Voevoda ; Kitezh ; Trouble at the conservatoire ; Political demonstration ; Resignation ; The Memoirs ; The Golden Cockerel ; Death ; Synopsis of The Golden Cockerel ; The principal works of Rimsky-Korsakov -- Scriabin. Eccentricity ; Born on Christmas day ; Feminine environment ; Impatience with exercises ; Rubinstein's advice ; Military school ; Zverev ; The spell of Chopin ; Moscow Conservatoire ; Pianist ; Tour of western Europe ; A callow young man ; Marriage ; Second sonata ; Paris ; Annuity ; Professorship ; Dabbler in philosophy ; First symphony ; The crank ; Second symphony ; Resignation and another annuity ; Lake Geneva ; Third symphony (Divine Poem) ; Art and philosophy ; The new Messiah ; Desertion ; Programme of the Divine Poem ; Rumours ; New York ; Public opinion ; Poem of Ecstasy ; A publishing venture ; The Koussevitskys ; Russia again ; An impression ; Prometheus (Poem of Fire) ; Colour and tone ; Volga tour ; The "Mystery" ; Tours as a pianist ; Moscow ; Poem of Fire in London ; Visit to London and Cambridge ; Religious maniac ; Death ; The published works of Scriabin. |