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Nikolay Myaskovsky

Gregor Tassie
Nikolay Myaskovsky Book PDF

Author : Gregor Tassie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442231337

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Nikolay Myaskovsky by Gregor Tassie Pdf

Gregor Tassie describes Nikolay Myaskovsky as “one of the great enigmas of 20th-century Russian music.” Between the two world wars, the symphonies of Myaskovsky enjoyed great popularity and were performed by all major American and European orchestras; they were some of the most inspiring symphonic works of the last hundred years and prolonged the symphonic genre. But accusations of “formalism” at the 1948 USSR Composers Congress resulted in the purposeful neglect of his music until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Myaskovsky wrote some of the most inspiring symphonic works of the last hundred years and prolonged and extended the symphonic genre. In Nikolay Myaskovsky: The Conscience of Russian Music, Tassie gives readers the first modern English-language biography of this Russian composer since his death in 1950. Tassie draws together information from the composer’s diaries and letters, as well as the memoirs of friends and colleagues—even his secret police files—to chronicle Myaskovsky’s early life, subsequent far-reaching influence as a composer, teacher, and journalist, and his final persecution by the Soviet government. This biography will surely rekindle interest in Myaskovsky’s remarkable body of work and will interest aficionados, students, and scholars of the modern classical music tradition and history of the arts in Russia.

Nikolay Myaskovsky

Patrick Zuk
Nikolay Myaskovsky Book PDF

Author : Patrick Zuk
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783275755

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Nikolay Myaskovsky by Patrick Zuk Pdf

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, this biography offers the first comprehensive critical reappraisal of the life and works of Nikolay Myaskovsky. Zuk's account is far removed from Cold War clichés of the regimented Soviet artist or sentimental stereotypes of persecuted genius.

Historical Dictionary of Russian Music

Daniel Jaffé
Historical Dictionary of Russian Music Book PDF

Author : Daniel Jaffé
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538130087

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Historical Dictionary of Russian Music by Daniel Jaffé Pdf

Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich is very much today’s lingua franca both in the concert hall and on the soundtracks of international blockbusters from Hollywood. Meanwhile, the innovations of Modest Musorgsky, Alexander Borodin, and Igor Stravinsky have played their crucial role in the development of Western music, influencing the work of virtually every notable composer of the past century. Historical Dictionary of Russian Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries for each of Russia’s major performing organizations and performance venues, and on specific genres such as ballet, film music, symphony and church music. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian Music.

Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music

Inessa Bazayev,Christopher Segall
Analytical Approaches to 20th Century Russian Music Book PDF

Author : Inessa Bazayev,Christopher Segall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000179309

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Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music by Inessa Bazayev,Christopher Segall Pdf

This volume brings together analyses of works by thirteen Russian composers from across the twentieth century, showing how their approaches to tonality, modernism, and serialism forge forward-looking paths independent from their Western counterparts. Russian music of this era is widely performed, and much research has situated this repertoire in its historical and social context, yet few analytical studies have explored the technical aspects of these composers' styles. With a set of representative analyses by leading scholars in music theory and analysis, this book for the first time identifies large-scale compositional trends in Russian music since 1900. The chapters progress by compositional style through the century, and each addresses a single work by a different composer, covering pieces by Rachmaninoff, Myaskovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Mansurian, Roslavets, Mosolov, Lourié, Tcherepnin, Ustvolskaya, Denisov, Gubaidulina, and Schnittke. Musicians, scholars, and students will find here a starting point for research and analysis of these composers' works and gain a richer understanding of how to listen to and interpret their music.

Yevgeny Mravinsky

Gregor Tassie
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Author : Gregor Tassie
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461674535

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Yevgeny Mravinsky by Gregor Tassie Pdf

This biography of Russian conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903-1988) examines a period and culture rarely dealt with by contemporary scholars. The last of a long line of distinguished Russian aristocrats, Mravinsky emerges from 20th century musical history as Russia's noble conductor. His connection to many prominent musicians—most notably Dmitri Shostakovich—and his life as conductor with the Leningrad Philharmonic provide unique insight into the Soviet music world. Furthermore, the book contains an interview with Andrey Zolotov, a chronology, and a selected discography.

André Jolivet: Music, Art and Literature

Caroline Rae
Andr Jolivet Music Art and Literature Book PDF

Author : Caroline Rae
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429769429

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André Jolivet: Music, Art and Literature by Caroline Rae Pdf

This first book in English on the French composer André Jolivet (1905–1974) investigates his music, life and influence. A pupil of Varèse and colleague of Messiaen in La Jeune France, Jolivet is a major figure in French music of the twentieth century. His music combines innovative language with spirituality, summarised in his self-declared axiom to ‘restore music’s ancient original meaning when it was the magic and incantatory expression of the sacred in human communities’. The book’s contextual introduction is followed by contributions, edited by Caroline Rae, from leading international scholars including the composer’s daughter Christine Jolivet-Erlih. These assess Jolivet’s output and activities from the 1920s through to his last works, exploring creative process, aesthetic, his relationship with the exotic and influences from literature. They also examine, for the first time, the significance of Jolivet’s involvement with the visual arts and his activities as conductor, teacher and critic. A chronology of Jolivet’s life and works with details of first performances provides valuable overview and reference. This fascinating and comprehensive volume is an indispensable source for research into French music and culture of the twentieth century.

Rethinking Prokofiev

Rita McAllister,Christina Guillaumier
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Author : Rita McAllister,Christina Guillaumier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190670795

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Rethinking Prokofiev by Rita McAllister,Christina Guillaumier Pdf

Among major 20th-century composers whose music is poorly understood, Sergei Prokofiev stands out conspicuously. The turbulent times in which Prokofiev lived and the chronology of his travels-he left Russia in the wake of Revolution, and returned at the height of the Stalinist purges-have caused unusually polarized appraisals of his music. While individual, distinctive, and instantly recognizable, Prokofiev's music was also idiosyncratically tonal in an age when tonality was largely passé. Prokofiev's output therefore has been largely elusive and difficult to assess against contemporary trends. More than sixty years after the composer's death, editors Rita McAllister and Christina Guillaumier offer Rethinking Prokofiev as an assessment that redresses this enigmatic composer's legacy. Often more political than artistic, these appraisals have depended not only upon the date of publication but also the geographical location of the writer. Commissioned from some of the most distinguished and rising scholars in the field, this collection highlights the background and context of Prokofiev's work. Contributors delve into the composer's relationship to nineteenth-century Russian traditions, Silver-Age and Symbolist composers and poets, the culture of Paris in the 1920s and '30s, and to his later Soviet colleagues and younger contemporaries. They also investigate his reception in the West, his return to Russia, and the effect of his music on contemporary popular culture. Still, the main focus of the book is on the music itself: his early, experimental piano and vocal works, as well as his piano concertos, operas, film scores, early ballets, and late symphonies. Through an empirical examination of his characteristic harmonies, melodies, cadences, and musical gestures-and through an analysis of the newly uncovered contents of his sketch-books-contributors reveal much of what makes Prokofiev an idiosyncratic genius and his music intriguing, often dramatic, and almost always beguiling.

The Three Apostles of Russian Music

Gregor Tassie
The Three Apostles of Russian Music Book PDF

Author : Gregor Tassie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781793644305

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The Three Apostles of Russian Music by Gregor Tassie Pdf

The Three Apostles of Russian Music looks at three figures in the Soviet avant-garde who led modernist music in the 1920s. Mosolov, Popov, and Roslavets were popular composers who are now unfortunately forgotten. These remarkable musicians produced compositions like the sensational machine music Foundry by Mosolov. The first symphony by Popov attracted musicians in Europe and America but was banned after the premiere, while Roslavets discovered serialism before Schoenberg, opening up a new trend in modernism. This book is the first study in English of the work, lives, and legacies of these “apostles” of the Russian avant-garde.

Prokofiev

David Nice
Prokofiev Book PDF

Author : David Nice
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300099142

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Prokofiev by David Nice Pdf

"The book follows Prokofiev's personal and musical journey from his childhood on a Ukrainian country estate to the years he spent travelling in America and Europe as an acclaimed interpreter of his own works. Nice sheds new light on the striking compositions of Prokofiev's early years, his training at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the circumstances of his departure from Russia in 1918 for what the composer thought would be a short tour of America.

Music of the Soviet Era: 1917-1991

Levon Hakobian
Music of the Soviet Era 1917 1991 Book PDF

Author : Levon Hakobian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317091875

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Music of the Soviet Era: 1917-1991 by Levon Hakobian Pdf

This volume is a comprehensive and detailed survey of music and musical life of the entire Soviet era, from 1917 to 1991, which takes into account the extensive body of scholarly literature in Russian and other major European languages. In this considerably updated and revised edition of his 1998 publication, Hakobian traces the strikingly dramatic development of the music created by outstanding and less well-known, ‘modernist’ and ‘conservative’, ‘nationalist’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ composers of the Soviet era. The book’s three parts explore, respectively, the musical trends of the 1920s, music and musical life under Stalin, and the so-called ’Bronze Age’ of Soviet music after Stalin’s death. Music of the Soviet Era: 1917–1991 considers the privileged position of music in the USSR in comparison to the written and visual arts. Through his examination of the history of the arts in the Soviet state, Hakobian’s work celebrates the human spirit’s wonderful capacity to derive advantage even from the most inauspicious conditions.

Sergey Prokofiev and His World

Simon Morrison
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Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691190426

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Sergey Prokofiev and His World by Simon Morrison Pdf

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigious childhood in tsarist Russia, maturation in the West, and rise and fall as a Stalinist-era composer is filled with unresolved questions. Sergey Prokofiev and His World probes beneath the surface of his career and contextualizes his contributions to music on both sides of the nascent Cold War divide. The book contains previously unknown documents from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow and the Prokofiev Estate in Paris. The literary notebook of the composer's mother, Mariya Grigoryevna, illuminates her involvement in his education and is translated in full, as are ninety-eight letters between the composer and his business partner, Levon Atovmyan. The collection also includes a translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's unperformed stage adaptation of Eugene Onegin, for which Prokofiev composed incidental music in 1936. The essays in the book range in focus from musical sketches to Kremlin decrees. The contributors explore Prokofiev's time in America; evaluate his working methods in the mid-1930s; document the creation of his score for the film Lieutenant Kizhe; tackle how and why Prokofiev rewrote his 1930 Fourth Symphony in 1947; detail his immortalization by Soviet bureaucrats, composers, and scholars; and examine Prokofiev's interest in Christian Science and the paths it opened for his music. The contributors are Mark Aranovsky, Kevin Bartig, Elizabeth Bergman, Leon Botstein, Pamela Davidson, Caryl Emerson, Marina Frolova-Walker, Nelly Kravetz, Leonid Maximenkov, Stephen Press, and Peter Schmelz.

Russian Émigré Culture

Christoph Flamm,Henry Keazor,Roland Marti
Russian migr Culture Book PDF

Author : Christoph Flamm,Henry Keazor,Roland Marti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443863667

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Russian Émigré Culture by Christoph Flamm,Henry Keazor,Roland Marti Pdf

A quarter of a century ago, glasnost opened the door for a new look at Russian émigré culture unimpeded by the sterile concepts of Cold War cultural politics. Easier access to archives and a comprehensive approach to culture as a multi-faceted phenomenon, not restricted to single phenomena or individuals, have since contributed to a better understanding of the processes within the émigré community, of its links with the lost home country, and of the interaction with the cultural life of the countries of adoption. This volume offers a collection of critical articles that resulted from the international interdisciplinary symposium which was held at Saarland University in November 2011 as part of a one-week festival, “Russian Music in Exile”. Scholars from around the world contributed essays reflecting current perspectives on Russian émigré culture, shedding new light on cultural diplomacy, literature, art, and music, and covering essentially the whole 20th century, from pre-revolutionary movements to the present. The interdisciplinary approach of the volume shows that émigré networks were not confined to a particular segment of culture, but united composers, artists, critics, and even diplomats. On the whole, the contributions to this volume document the fascinating diversity, the internal contradictions, as well as the impact that the largest and most durable émigré movement of the 20th century had on European cultural life.

Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend

Elizabeth Wilson
Mstislav Rostropovich Cellist Teacher Legend Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571261147

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Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend by Elizabeth Wilson Pdf

Published to coincide with Rostropovich's 80th birthday celebrationsMstislav Rostropovich, internationally recognised as one of the world's finest cellists and musicians, has always maintained that teaching is an important responsibility for great artists. Before his emigration in 1974 from Russia to the West, Rostropovich taught several generations of the brightest Russian talents - as Professor of the Moscow Conservatoire - over a continuous period of two decades. His students included such artists as Jacqueline du Pré, Nataliyia Gutman, Karine Georgian, Ivan Monighetti and many others Rostropovich's teaching represented not only his individual approach to cello repertoire and instrumental technique, but also comprised a philosophy of life. As soon as he returned from his frequent concert tours, he would launch himself with whirlwind energy into his teaching activities. His lessons, which were conducted as open masterclasses , were awaited eagerly as an event of huge importance. Class 19 of the Moscow Conservatoire, where they were held, was usually packed with students (violinists , conductors and pianists as well as cellists). Often other professors dropped in, as did visiting musicians. The lessons were performances in themselves: Rostropovich - usually seated at the piano - cajoled and inspired his students to give the best of themselves. His comments went far beyond correcting the students in making them understand the essence of the work they were playing. Often this was done through striking imagery, and as such the lessons were addressed to the wider audience present in the classroom as well as to the individual student. Drawing from her own vivid reminiscences and those of ex-students, documents from the Moscow Conservatoire and extensive interviews with Rostropovich himself , Elizabeth Wilson's book sets out to define his teaching, and to recapture the atmosphere of the conservatoire and Moscow's musical life.

Stalin's Music Prize

Marina Frolova-Walker
Stalin s Music Prize Book PDF

Author : Marina Frolova-Walker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300208849

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Stalin's Music Prize by Marina Frolova-Walker Pdf

Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the best in Soviet culture. This revealing study sheds new light on the Communist leader's personal tastes, the lives and careers of those honored, including multiple-recipients Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and the elusive artistic concept of "Socialist Realism," offering the most comprehensive examination to date of the relationship between music and the Soviet state from 1940 through 1954.

Representing Russia's Orient

Adalyat Issiyeva
Representing Russia s Orient Book PDF

Author : Adalyat Issiyeva
Publisher : AMS Studies in Music
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190051365

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Representing Russia's Orient by Adalyat Issiyeva Pdf

Building on long-forgotten archives and detailed case studies, Representing Russia's Orient reveals how complex representations of oriental subjects in nineteenth-century Russian art music, which often merged elements of East and West, contributed to the formation of Russia's national identity.