3. Eugene Onegin in the Age of Realism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: In the Shadow of Literature xiii
5. 1. Sound and Discourse: On Russian National Musical Style 1
6. 2. Farewell to the Enchanted Garden: Pushkin, Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas’s Russia 23
7. 3. Eugene Onegin in the Age of Realism 58
8. 4. Khovanshchina: A Musical Drama, Russian-Style (Wagner and Musorgsky) 95
9. 5. Lost in a Symbolist City: Multiple Chronotopes in Chaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades 132
10. 6. A Testimony: Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony and the End of Romantic Narrative 161
11. 7. ‘‘Popolo di Pekino’’: Musorgsky’s Muscovy in Early Twentieth-Century Europe 185
12. Epilogue 209
13. Notes 219
14. Index 255