Content
- Preface
- Illustrations
- 1:Childhood and early years
- 2:The making of a composer: I
- 3:The making of a composer: II
- 4:The early songs: I
- 5:Salammbô
- 6:The early songs: II
- 7:St John's Night on the Bare Mountain more songs
- 8:The Marriage: towards Boris
- 9:Boris Godunov: composition and production
- 10:Boris Godunov
- 11:Life alongside Boris - The Nursery completed, A note on Musorgsky's spelling of his name
- 12:Life alongside Boris II: Khovanshchina begun
- 13:Two relationships: Pictures at an Exhibition and Sunless
- 14:Khovanshchina
- 15:Songs and Dances of Death: Last songs
- 16:Sorochintsy Fair
- 17:Final years
- 18:Postlude: the century since
- Appendices
- A:Calendar
- B:List of works
- C:Personalia
- D:Select bibliography
- Index