| |
| |
Alexandr Sergeyevich Dargomizhsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Dargomyzhsky's only musical education was provided by a set of exercise books lent to him by Mikhail Glinka, whom he met in 1833. |
| | Dargomyzhsky's first opera, Esmeralda (1839), is basically French in character, but with Rusalka (1856) he showed a marked gift for re-creating specifically Russian characters, scenes, and speech rhythms. |
| | In this opera Dargomyzhsky reproduced with striking accuracy not only the rhythms but the stresses and pitches of Russian speech, exercising a strong influence on Modest Mussorgsky and later Russian composers. |
| russia-in-us.com /Music/Opera/dargomizhsky.html (136 words) |
|
