单词 | Moussorgsky |
例句 | And it was on such grounds that these sincere music lovers believed that they must justify their enthusiasm—quick and spontaneous though it was—for works of a Moussorgsky! An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z He put away Moussorgsky with a sigh, and curled up to go to sleep. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z In both of Moussorgsky's familiar operas, for example, the leading part is destined for a bass voice. Interpreters A single page of Moussorgsky or Strawinsky shows more originality, more potential greatness than the complete scores of Mahler and Reger. Above the Battle He absorbed Moussorgsky, and built upon him, and he had Wagner at his finger-ends; like Charpentier he cannot keep Wagner out of his scores; the Bayreuth composer is the King Charles's head in his manuscript. Ivory Apes and Peacocks He had decided to give Moussorgsky's Khovanstchina in the next Paris season. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z It was disturbing to Terry, who was reading Moussorgsky. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Of the little group of composers then striving to give musical expression to their newly awakened nationality, none was so entirely carried away by the literary and political movements of the time as Moussorgsky. Music: An Art and a Language I do—but we've still time for a little Moussorgsky'—or whatever wild names they call themselves—'if you'll make those people outside hold their tongues.' Coming Home 1916 Moussorgsky did not approve of Wagner's gigantic orchestral apparatus; he wished to avoid all that would distract the spectator from the stage—for him Wagner was too much "symphonist," not enough dramatist. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Did you ever see the Disney animations of Moussorgsky’s witches’ sabbath music? The Creature from Cleveland Depths The music of Moussorgsky comes up out of a dense and livid ground. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers These men, Balakireff, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Moussorgsky, have done for the free expression of the Russian temperament in music what Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoyevsky represent in literature. Music: An Art and a Language Much better stuff is to be found in "Overtones," "The Pathos of Distance" and "Ivory, Apes and Peacocks"—brilliant, if not always profound studies of Strauss, Wagner, Schoenberg, Moussorgsky, and even Verdi. A Book of Prefaces Dostoïevsky was an epileptic, and the nature of Moussorgsky's "mysterious nervous ailment" is unknown to me; possibly it was a mild or masked epilepsy. Ivory Apes and Peacocks I should be far from saying that any modern is a greater song-writer than Schubert; but it is obvious that the followers of Wolf and Duparc and Moussorgsky are aiming at something different. Recent Developments in European Thought For the music of Debussy is the delicate and classical and voluptuous and aristocratic expression of the same consciousness of which Moussorgsky's is the severe, stark, barbaric; the caress as opposed to the pinch. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers In this work Moussorgsky went against the foreign classic opera in conception as well as in construction. Music: An Art and a Language "Of course I myself prefer Moussorgsky," said Aaron. Aaron's Rod Moussorgsky was said to have been a heavy drinker—his biographer speaks of him as being "ravaged by alcohol"—a failing not rare in Russia. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Boris, by the way, picturesque and dramatic figure that he is as presented to us in history, never got upon the operatic stage until Moussorgsky took him in hand. A Second Book of Operas The songs of Moussorgsky are things that can be recognized in each of their moments, so deeply and completely distinctive they are. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The music is more or less, like many of Moussorgsky's songs, written in imitation of the old folk-songs, folk dances, ceremonial chants, and festival tunes. Music: An Art and a Language Moussorgsky I have styled a "primitive," and I fancy it is as good an ascription as another. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Not so with Moussorgsky, and while few youthful composers have been so carefully counselled, he either could not, or would not, take the trouble of mastering the rudiments of his art. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Debussy acclaimed Moussorgsky enthusiastically a dozen years ago, but for all that Moussorgsky and Debussy are antipodes in art—they represent extremes. A Second Book of Operas In Moussorgsky, music has given the new world its priest. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers In order to understand Moussorgsky's work and his attitude towards art, it is necessary to realise the social conditions under which he lived. Music: An Art and a Language Moussorgsky was like other well-nurtured youths who went to Siberia for a mere gesture of dissent. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The keyboard did not make special appeal to Moussorgsky. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Moussorgsky, however, had more, richer, and a greater variety of material to work with than Puccini. A Second Book of Operas As Moussorgsky originally wrote these scores, their forms are visible on page after page. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Of Moussorgsky, Debussy has remarked that he reminded him of a curious savage who at every step traced by his emotions discovers music. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Dostoïevsky always repented in haste only to sin again at leisure; with Moussorgsky it was the same. Ivory Apes and Peacocks So the musical baggage which is carried by Moussorgsky down the corridor of time is not large. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It is a pity that a suspicion of disingenuousness and affectation should force itself upon one's thoughts in connection with the French enthusiasm over Moussorgsky; but it cannot be avoided. A Second Book of Operas For at the moment that the old boyar, and with him the old order of Russia, goes to his doom, there is intoned by his followers the sweetest melody that Moussorgsky wrote or could write. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Moussorgsky preceded Debussy in his use of whole-tone harmonies, and a contemporary of Debussy, and an equally gifted musician, Martin Loeffler, was experimenting before Debussy himself in a dark but delectable harmonic region. Ivory Apes and Peacocks But it is by no means alone the timeliness of Moussorgsky that has advanced him to his present position. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers His vigorous rhythmic sense enabled Moussorgsky to express bizarre motions and unusual situations that are at first blush extramusical. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Only a Moussorgsky could make a drunken monk talk truthfully in music. A Second Book of Operas And some men there were, Moussorgsky and Borodin, who were quick enough of imagination to become the instruments of their folk and respond to its need. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Moussorgsky seems to have crept closer to life than most artists, to have seized emotions in their nakedness and sharpness, to have felt with the innocence of a child. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Sometimes, Moussorgsky is whole civilizations discarded by life. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Moussorgsky was his name, and despite his impoverished circumstances, or probably because of them, he was burning the candle at both ends and in the middle. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Indeed, so unconventional, so crude, shaggy, utterly inelegant, are Moussorgsky's scores, that they offend in polite musical circles even to-day. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers For he was in no sense as nobly human of stature, as deeply aware of the life about him, as Moussorgsky. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers No doubt the music of Moussorgsky is not entirely iron-gray. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The gaunt gray piles, the metallic surfaces, the homelinesses of Moussorgsky, are more virile, stronger, more resisting than Wagner's music. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers He is an impressionist, a stylist, the reverse of Moussorgsky, and he has the "conscience of the ear" which his friend lacked. Ivory Apes and Peacocks If there is anything in modern music to be compared with the sheer, blunt, powerful volumes of primitive art it is the work of Moussorgsky. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The evangel of Tolstoy, the novels of Dostoievsky, the music of Moussorgsky are the new gospels. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Moussorgsky's style is blood-brother to the spoken language, is indeed as much the Russian language as music can be. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers What the world lost when Modest Moussorgsky died in his forty-second year we shall never know. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Profound psychologist he was not; an innovator, like Moussorgsky he never would have been; the tragic eloquence vouchsafed Tschaikovsky was denied him. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It made you write to Borodin and Moussorgsky those cordial letters which pleased them so much. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers To a large degree, it is the change of times that has advanced and appreciated the art of Moussorgsky. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Then, like Boris himself, Moussorgsky sweeps through in stiff, blazoned robes, crowned with the domed, flashing Slavic tiara. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The operas of Moussorgsky have begun to achieve the eminence that Wagner's once possessed. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Tschaikovsky did not admire Moussorgsky, spoke slightingly of his abilities, though he conceded that with all his roughness he had power of a repellent order. Ivory Apes and Peacocks And so Moussorgsky's music, with its poor and uncouth and humble tone, its revulsion from pride and material grandeur and lordliness, its iron and cruelty and bleakness, lay unknown and neglected in its snows. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers For while Moussorgsky may have influenced Debussy artistically, it was Debussy's work that made for the recognition and popularization of Moussorgsky's. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Moussorgsky was buoyed by the great force of the Russian charity, the Russian humility, the Russian pity. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The accent of Moussorgsky was in the grave and popular melodies, in the liturgical incantations, before he was born. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Curiously enough, the Russian Moussorgsky, whose work was neglected during his lifetime, has proved to be a precursor to latter-day music. Ivory Apes and Peacocks One feels that the composer has recently encountered the personalities of Moussorgsky and Debussy. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers |
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