Musical Truth in Musorgskys Boris Godunov
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Our interest in the role played by social intelligence in politics suffices to generate much of the aesthetic attraction of Musorgskys Boris Godunov. Not only is the opera a remarkably faithful reenactment of Russias dynastic struggle in 1598-1605, it is replete with cases of deceit and also passages of unprecedented psychological insight. The composers pursuit of musical truth anticipates much of the modern Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis.