Anton Rubinstein - An Annotated Catalog of Piano Works and Biography

Anton Rubinstein, a seminal figure in Russian music, was not only a great pianist but also a monumental influence in Russian music education. Rubinstein is responsible for laying the groundwork for Russia's tertiary educational system for the training of musicians and for establishing the use of Western structural forms in Russian music. He later became the foundation director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Detailing Rubinstein's pianistic and conducting repertoire, this work provides insight into Russian nineteenth-century performance practice, and the biography presents a sober assessment of Rubinstein's place in history. The author has researched valuable Russian sources to make this assessment of Rubinstein available in English and has provided informative guidelines for further research.

In attempting to reinstate Rubinstein as an important figure in the history of Russian and international music, this study makes available to conductors and musicologists updated information on an important nineteenth-century music figure and an aspect of Russian music that has either been forgotten or ignored. Researchers and scholars will appreciate the annotated thematic catalog that includes all of Rubinstein's many works for piano, the extensive repertoire lists, and the extensive bibliography.

List of contents

Preface
Biography
Thematic Catalog
Rubinstein's Piano & Conducting Repertoire
Catalog of Works
Bibliography
Index of Names

About the author

LARRY SITSKY is Head of the Department of Composition, Canberra School of Music, Canberra, Australia, and is an internationally known pianist, and active broadcaster, teacher and lecturer. His numerous articles on music have been appearing regularly since 1974 and his previous book was Busoni and the Piano (Greenwood Press, 1986). He is currently completing The Unknown Russian Avant-Garde forthcoming from Greenwood Press.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Sitsky, Sitsky Larry
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.1998
• EAN: 9780313254970
• ISBN: 978-0-313-25497-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Music Reference Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard, Russia, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, Biography: arts & entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Keyboard instruments, Bibliographies, catalogues, Popular Culture: Music and Performing Arts