How Long to Read The Life of Musorgsky

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life of Musorgsky?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 40 minutes to read The Life of Musorgsky by Caryl Emerson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 single opera, Boris Godunov and a handful of eccentric 'realistic' songs set to prosaic Russian texts. He had no institutional connections, no 'degree', no family of his own, not even a permanent address. Except for Franz Liszt, no composer of stature knew of him outside Russia. Through the loyal (if controversial) intervention of his friends, his works survived in various editings into the early twentieth century, when revivals and evolving musical tastes restored him to new life. This account of his life, first published in 1999, emphasizes the psychological and economic factors that contributed to the composer's remarkable rise and tragic, premature end and is the first brief biography in English to make use of materials published in the new, de-Sovietized Russian academic climate.

How long is The Life of Musorgsky?

The Life of Musorgsky by Caryl Emerson is 220 pages long, and a total of 55,000 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life of Musorgsky Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours to read The Life of Musorgsky aloud.

What Reading Level is The Life of Musorgsky?

The Life of Musorgsky is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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