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Informationen zum Autor Malcolm Hamrick Brown, a world-renowned authority on Russian and Soviet music, is the founding editor of the Russian Music Studies series at Indiana University Press. Klappentext The definitive statement on the Shostakovich controversy. Zusammenfassung A volume of essential reading and scholarship in Russian music studies that brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration and on Translation Introduction Part I. 1. Shostakovich versus Volkov: Whose Testimony? (1980) Laurel E. Fay 2. Volkov's Testimony Reconsidered (2002) Laurel E. Fay Part II. 3. A Side-By-Side Comparison of Texts from Testimony With Their Original Sources 4. A Pitiful Forgery: About the So-Called "Memoirs" of D. D. Shostakovich (1979) (A letter to the editor of the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta) 5. The Bedbug (1979) (An editorial published in the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta) (1979) 6. The Official Dossier (1979) (A news item published in the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta) 7. Notes from the Soviet Archives on Volkov's Testimony (1995) Alla Bogdanova 8. An Episode in the Life of a Book: An Interview with Henry Orlov (2000) Ludmila Kovnatskaya 9. An Answer to Those Who Still Abuse Shostakovich (2000) Irina Shostakovich 10. On Solomon Volkov and Testimony (1988; 1997) Boris Tishchenko 11. The Regime and Vulgarity (1999) Elena Basner 12. Shostakovich's World is Our World (1998) Mistislav Rostropovich Talks With Manashir Yakubov 13. Shostakovich Remembered: Interviews With His Soviet Colleagues (1992) Irina Nikolskaya Part III. 14. A Link in the Chain: Reflections on Shostakovich and His Times (1976) Henry Orlov 15. A Perspective on Soviet Musical Culture During the Lifetime of Shostakovich (1998) Levon Hakobian 16. The Latest "New Shostakovich" (2000) Levon Hakobian 17. Dialogues About Shostakovich: From the History of Russian Studies About Shostakovich (2002) Ludmila Kovnatskaya Part IV. 18. Ian MacDonald's The New Shostakovich (1993) Malcolm Hamrick Brown 19. Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (1996) Malcolm Hamrick Brown 20. A Response to Papers by Allan Ho and Dmitri Feofanov (1998) David Fanning 21. Whose Shostakovich? (2000) Gerard McBurney 22. The Shostakovich Variations (2000) Paul Mitchinson 23. Shostakovich: A Brief Encounter and a Present Perspective (1996; 2002) Malcolm Hamrick Brown 24. Laurel Fay's Shostakovich: A Life (2000) Simon Morrison 25. When Serious Music Mattered (2001) Richard Taruskin Bibliography Index List of Contributors List of Contributors: ELENA VENIAMINOVNA BASNER, daughter of composer Veniamin Basner, one of Shostakovich's most trusted friends ALLA VLADIMIROVNA BOGDANOVA has published a number of books in Russian on the music of Shostakovich MALCOLM HAMRICK BROWN is founding editor of the scholarly series Russian Music Studies DAVID FANNING is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Manchester. LAUREL E. FAY's scholarly biography, Shosta...
