Shchedrin, R: Rodion Shchedrin

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My Genealogical Tree
Childhood
Return to Moscow
The Choral Institute
Conservatoire
The World Around
In Search of Folk-Music
Three Successes
Cinematc Myths and the Death of my Father
Maya Plistskaya
Some Sinners and Saints
First Opera
Were There Musical Dissidents in the Former Soviet Union
Establishment Composers
Carmen Suite
Poetoria, the Prague Spring and the Lenin Oratorio
Dead Souls
Who is a Composer
How I Found Myself Occupying Shostakovich's Chair
Perestroika Years
The Tale of The Twelve Months
Lolita
People Throw Stones Only at Apple Trees with Apples on Them
Working with Lorin Maazel
11 September 2001 and Mariss Jansons
Instrumental Concertos
The Sealed Angel in Berlin
Working Days, High Days and Holidays
Why Munich
Boyarinya Morozova
Post Scriptum
List of Compositions
Index

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Rodion Shchedrin is internationally recognized as the pre-eminent contemporary composer of the Russian modern school. His autobiography looks back over an eventful life and provides a variety of stimulating insights behind the facade of the international music scene. Along the way Shchedrin elaborates highly personal views on the political situation and many other aspects of life in the former Soviet Union, turning an unsparing eye on the machinery of ideological repression exerted on artists as they struggled to interpret and conform to the constantly mutating diktats of the regime. A wealth of anecdotes and humorous observations offer the reader glimpses of the author’s essentially sanguine and life-enhancing disposition. Rodion Shchedrin was born in Moscow in 1932. He studied composition and piano at the Moscow Conservatoire and quickly made his way to international recognition in both disciplines. His ballets, symphonic works, piano concertos and chamber music compositions are regularly performed in the leading theatres and concert halls of the world. Rodion Shchedrin and his wife, the prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, today make their homes in Moscow and Munich, shuttling between the two although, as Shchedrin prepares to enter his ninth decade of life, his ceaseless travels around the globe show no sign of diminishing.

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