Nikolay Myaskovsky - The Conscience of Russian Music

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.

List of contents

Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Childhood and Youth
Chapter 2: The St Petersburg Conservatoire
Chapter 3: A Free Artist
Chapter 4: War and Revolution
Chapter 5: The Road to Calvary
Chapter 6: The Red Guards
Chapter 7: The Musical Conscience of Moscow
Chapter 8: The Planes are Flying
Chapter 9: World Fame and the Patriotic War
Chapter 10: Cry of the Wanderer
Chapter 11: The Swan Song
Chapter 12: The Final Coda
Chronology
Bibliography
Discography
Catalog of Works by Nikolai Myaskovsky
Index

About the author

By Gregor Tassie

Product details

• Authors: Gregor Tassie, Tassie Gregor
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2014
• EAN: 9781442231320
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3132-0
• No. of pages: 438
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Russia, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music