January 1948
The Pleasures of Reading
<emphasis type="italic">The Musorgsky Reader</emphasis>, translated and edited by Jay Leyda and Sergei Bertensson (Norton, $6).
Modeste Petrovich Musorgsky is known to most American music lovers by only a handful of works--his opera Boris Godunov, his orchestral revelry Night on Bald Mountain, and his Pictures at an Exhibition, either in its original piano form, or its various orchestrated versions, the work of later arrangers. Few would regard this limited output as the work of the greatest genius among Russia's many composers, yet he was just that.
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