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Peter Tchaikovsky
\"Clever illustrations and story lines give children a light yet realistic overview of this composer's life and style and music\"--Amazon.com.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Drawing extensively on Russian-language sources, a concise yet comprehensive survey of the life and work of one of classical music's great composers. Unquestionably one of the most popular composers of classical music, Sergei Rachmaninoff has not always been so admired by critics. Detractors have long perceived Rachmaninoff as part of an outdated Romantic tradition from a bygone Russian world, aloof from the modernist experimentation of more innovative contemporaries such as Igor Stravinsky. In this new assessment, Rebecca Mitchell resituates Rachmaninoff in the context of his time, bringing together the composer and his music within the remarkably dynamic era in which he lived and worked. Both in Russia and later in America, Rachmaninoff and his music were profoundly modern expressions of life in tune with an uncertain world. This concise yet comprehensive biography will interest general readers as well as those more familiar with this giant of Russian classical music.
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Tchaikovsky : the man revealed
A tortured genius, a sensitive soul, and a great composer burdened by the weight of his private desires, Tchaikovsky is explored by John Suchet.
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Anton Rubinstein : a life in music
The first modern biography in English of Russian composer-pianist Anton
Rubinstein, this book places Rubinstein within the context of Russian and western
European musical culture during the late 19th century, exploring his rise to
international fame from humble origins in Bessarabia, as well as his subsequent
rapid decline and marginalization in later musical culture. Taylor provides a
balanced account of Rubinstein's life and his career as a piano virtuoso, conductor,
composer, and as the founder of Russia's first conservatory. Widely considered the
virtuosic heir to Liszt, and recognized internationally as an equivalent cultural
icon, he performed with most leading musicians of the day, including Liszt himself,
Joachim, Clara Schumann, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Saint-Saens, and Ysaÿe.
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Russian Composers Abroad
As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of their adopted homes.
Russian Composers Abroad explores the self-identity of these émigrés, especially those who left from the 1970s on, and how aspects of their diasporic identities played out in their music. Elena Dubinets provides a journey through the complexities of identity formation and cultural production under globalization and migration, elucidating sociological perspectives of the post-Soviet world that have caused changes in composers' outlooks, strategies, and rankings.
Russian Composers Abroad is an illuminating study of creative ideas that are often shaped by the exigencies of financing and advancement rather than just by the vision of the creators and the demands of the public.
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Tchaikovsky's empire : a new life of Russia's greatest composer
Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a suffering melancholic, or a morbid obsessive, the Tchaikovsky we think we know is a shadow of the fascinating reality. It is all too easy to forget that he composed an empire's worth of music, and navigated the imperial Russian court to great advantage. In this iconoclastic biography, celebrated author Simon Morrison re-creates Tchaikovsky's complex world. His life and art were framed by Russian national ambition, and his work was the emanation of an imperial subject: kaleidoscopic, capacious, cosmopolitan, decentred. Morrison reexamines the relationship between Tchaikovsky's music, personal life, and politics; his support of Tsars Alexander II and III; and his engagement with the cultures of the imperial margins, in Ukraine, Poland, and the Caucasus. Tchaikovsky's Empire unsettles everything we thought we knew--and gives us a vivid new appreciation of Russia's most popular composer\"-- Publisher's website.
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Musorgsky
Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian music.Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century.Indeed, this is the largest such study of Musorgsky to have appeared outside Russia.
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