For Viktor: The Story of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

For Viktor: The Story of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
Robert Philip Bolton
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Paperback
h210 x 150mm - 38pg
1 Dec 2007 NZ
9780473131258
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This short, entertaining book, will appeal to music lovers of any age but is especially suitable for use in musical education and as a reading tool to demonstrate the use of language to describe the emotions evoked by music and images which can be seen only by the mind's eye. Based on fact, and historically accurate, it is written in Modest Mussorgsky's own voice as he guides a young companion around the picture exhibition held in honour of his friend Viktor Hartman at the Academy of Artists in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1874. It was this exhibition which inspired Mussorgsky to write the suite of music he called 'Pictures at an Exhibition'. The book is written to be read or delivered in time with the playing of the music. The duration of each section - including each of the promenades - is about the same as the musical piece it describes. Indeed, important events in the narrative often intersect with appropriate moments in the music to bring the unseen pictures to life. It is indeed a unique meeting of art, music and literature.
Robert Philip Bolton is one of PublishMe's biggest selling authors. He has been writing professionally most of his adult life specialising in short stories about New Zealand and New Zealanders and has published five books with PublishMe. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1945 and has travelled extensively throughout New Zealand, Australia, Britain (where he lived and worked), Europe, Asia and Japan, as well as the United States where he worked in Atlanta, Georgia. The father of two adult children, he lives with his wife, Kath, (also a writer) in Greenlane, Auckland.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780473131258
Published: 1 Dec 2007
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Robert Philip Bolton
Publisher: Robert Philip Bolton
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 150mm
Pages: 38
Dewey: 823.3

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