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Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s — long known as The Mighty Handful, but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as 'the great little heap' — gave rise to one of the most fascinating and colourful stories in all musical history. Stephen Walsh, author of a major biography of their direct successor, Stravinsky, has written an absorbing…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 609 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 709) Аннотация: This, the second and final volume of Stephen Walsh's magisterial biography of Igor Stravinsky, begins in 1934, when Stravinsky is fifty-two and living in France. Already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation, Stravinsky is nevertheless at this point a fairly unhappy expatriate, all too aware of the war clouds beginning to gather. Though he still maintains a family life…