A study of two of the greatest composers of the twentieth century through their correspondence, now available for the first time in English in a paperback edition.

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 ...

A clear and accessible introduction to one of the most significant operas of the twentieth century.

In this 1997 biography, Peter Franklin re-confronts the myth of Mahler and attempts to find the person behind the legends.

A detailed study of the earliest opera in the modern repertoire.

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