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Nikolay Myaskovsky

The Conscience of Russian Music
  • ISBN-13: 9781442231320
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By Gregor Tassie
  • Price: AUD $298.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/07/2014
  • Format: Hardback (230.00mm X 160.00mm) 438 pages Weight: 820g
  • Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]
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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.
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
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