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Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music
- Author: Krebs, Stanley Dale
Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music
- Author: Krebs, Stanley Dale
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Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music (1970) is a thought-provoking review of Soviet music and musicians. This scholarly and readable distillation of factual information and well-reasoned conclusions is the result of many years of exhaustive study of reference works, monographs and journals, as well as musical scores both published and unpublished, all supplemented by interviews and personal participation in Soviet musical life. The author presents a cogent, critical analysis of the relationship between extra-musical pressures and the theory and practice of artistic autonomy. The lives and works of some two dozen major Soviet composers are discussed, and insight is provided into Soviet thinking about music, and thinking about the arts.
Contents
- Part 1 . Soviet Russian Cultural Ideology and Music
- 1. Before October
- 2. Axes of Development
- 3. Music and Politicians: Lunacharsky and Others
- 4. Music and Revolution: 1917–32
- 5. Music and Reaction: 1932–
- Part 2 . The Older Generation of Soviet Composers
- 6. Ippolitov-Ivanov
- 7. Reinhold Gliere
- 8. Sergei Vasilenko
- 9. Boris Asaf’ev
- 10. Nikolai Miaskovsky
- 11. Dmitrii Arakishvili
- 12. Uzeir Gadzhibekov
- 13. Sergei Prokofieff
- Part 3 . The Middle Generation of Soviet Composers
- 14. Iurii Shaporin
- 15. Dmitrii Shostakovich
- 16. Vissarion Shebalin
- 17. Aram Khachaturian
- 18. Dmitrii Kabalevsky
- 19. Tikhon Khrennikov
- 20. Georgii Sviridov
- 21. Andrei Balanchivadze
- Part 4 . The Younger Generation of Soviet Composers
- 22. Rodion Shchedrin
- 23. German Galynin
- 24. Otar Taktakishvili
- 25. Kara Karaev
- 26. Fikret Amirov
- 27. Other Young Composers
