Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929

Soviet and Russian music of the first third of the 20th century--with the exception of the music of a few high-profile composers who were officially sponsored by the State--is still largely unexplored territory, known only to a few specialists. Nevertheless, the music has considerable intrinsic value well beyond its curiosity appeal, and includes many pieces unaccountably forgotten and certainly worth reviving, to the ultimate enhancement of our concert repertoire. The study of this music also explains much about the foundations of Soviet culture and its subsequent suppression and decline under the Stalinist yoke. The purpose of this volume is to stimulate interest in this little-known area of Soviet/Russian music. The works charted here constitute a great flowering of avant-garde music which was then savagely dealt with for Stalin's political purposes.

List of contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Historical Background: Anatoliy V. Lunacharsky, the Cultured Commissar
The Precursors
Vladimir I. Rebikov: The Inventor of Whole-Tone Music
Aleksei V. Stanchinskiy: The Diatonic Webern
The Big Three
Nikolai A. Roslavets: The Russian Schoenberg
Aleksandr V. Mosolov: The Man of Steel
Arthur V. Lourie: The Decadent Out of Place
The Smaller Five
Leonid A. Polovinkin: The Partial Avant-Gardist
Vladimir V. Shcherbachev: Old Wine in New Vessels
Lev K. Knipper: Wind from the West
Boris N. Liatoshinski: The Passionate Slav
Vladimir M. Deshevov: The Man of the Theater
The Reluctant Avant-Gardists
Samuil E. Feinberg: The Post-Scriabin Pianist
Anatoliy N. Aleksandrov: The Post-Rachmaninovian
Boris A. Aleksandrov: Son of the Composer of the Soviet Anthem
The Jewish School
Aleksandr A. Krein: Voice in the Wilderness
Grigoriy A. Krein: Toward Assimilation
Yulian G. Krein: Precocious Cosmopolitan
Aleksandr M. Veprik: The Ukrainian Bartok and Bloch
Mikhail F. Gnessin: The Jewish Glinka
Composers in Exile
Ivan A. Vishnegradsky: Microtones
Nikolai Obukhov: Mystic Beyond Scriabin
Iosif M. Schillinger: Gershwin's Teacher
Aleksandr N. Tcherepnine: Suave Internationalist
Musicologists and Transients
Sergei V. Protopopov: The Post-Scriabin Composer
Leonid L. Sabaneev: Would-be Scientist Becomes Critic
Dmitriy M. Melkikh: Rhapsodist
Gavrill N. Popov: Contrapuntalist
Aleksei S. Zhivotov: Notorious for One Piece
Efim Golyshchev: The First Serialist?
Georgi M. Rimsky-Korsakov: Microtonist
Appendix: Further Scores for Study and Reference
Index

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: 29.09.1994
• EAN: 9780313267093
• ISBN: 978-0-313-26709-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Weight: 624 g
• Series: Contributions to the Study of; Contributions to the Study of; Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Composers and songwriters, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Art music, orchestral and formal music, Popular Culture: Music and Performing Arts