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Modern Russian Composers

Book by Leonid Sabaneev, Judah A. Joffe; International Publishers, 1927

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Music--Soviet Union--History and criticism, Musicians--Russian

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...condescension of the usual "childrens composer." With infinite art and taste...world of childhood elements of Russian nationalism in the form of...In the creation of artistic Russian church music, Gryechaninoff...begun by Glinka, the father of Russian music. The idea of this work...
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Dmitri Shostakovich; the Life and Background of a Soviet Composer

Book by Victor Ilyitch Seroff; Alfred A Knopf, 1947

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Composers--Russian--Biography, Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitrievich--1906-1975

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...this composition to the Russian nation and to the morale of the Russian people at this time was...Soviet government. The Russians, knowing the powerful influence...devoted columns to the young Russian composer, and page after page of...
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Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America: The Composers, Their Times, and Their Works

Book by Nicholas E. Tawa; Greenwood Press, 1992

Subjects:

Composers--United States, Music--United States--20th Century--History And Criticism

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...Overture. Moreover, the Russian composer Alexander Glazunov found the...critic writes: Gilbert is a composer who does not seek after artificial...individuality of the American composer in his direct and classic...and other African-American composers piano rags, those effervescent...
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Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music

Book by Judith Tick; Oxford University Press, 2000

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Composers--United States--Biography, Seeger, Ruth Crawford--1901-1953, Women Composers--United States--Biography

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...gifted and struggling pioneer composer was to turn my apartment on...York. When Seeger met the composer Carl Ruggles, they too became...Rudhyar, Edgard Varese, the Russian composer Leon Theremin the "ether...were often occupied by guest composers. Cowell was one; Bela Bartok...
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Composers on Composers

Book by John L. Holmes; Greenwood Press, 1990

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Composers, Music--History And Criticism, Musicians As Authors

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...condemned by critics and was never performed again in the composers lifetime. He wrote nothing of importance for the next two...bring delight to the inhabitants of Hell. 406 MEDTNER, the Russian composer and pianist, who was a colleague of Rachmaninovs--his...

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Journal Articles on: russian composer

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The Composer's Voice: "what Women Can Do"

Journal article by Brenda Dalen; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 16, 1995

Subjects:

Archer, Violet, Careers, Composers, Montreal Quebec Canada, Traditions, Women

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...do you think you would have become a composer had your parents stayed in Italy? V...for women over there, especially for composers. To give an example, theres an Italian...woman, who is married to an Italian composer-but shes English originally-and...the International Festival of Women Composers last year. The one whom I met-who...
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Frederic Chopin and Other Composers Tuberculotics - Pathography

Journal article by Darko Breitenfeld, Davor Kust, Vesna Turuk, Ivica Vucak, Danijel Buljan, Mara Zupanic, Marko Lucijanic; Alcoholism, Vol. 46, 2010

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Chopin, Frederic (1810-49), Composers, Fever, Piano, Respiratory system

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...composers we elaborated about 200 composers who were pulmonary patients...view on other most important composers tuberculotics. Because of...duration in the group of composers mentioned here of 48 years...Justyne. That famous Polish composer and virtuoso pianist was...Romantic music. Following the Russian suppression of the Polish...
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"Who Is to Blame? What Is to Be Done?": Joint Ventures with Russian Americanists in the 1990s

Journal article by Louis W. Potts; American Studies International, 2003

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Cultural relations, Russians--Attitudes, Russians--Education

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...role, I encountered four aspects of Russian American scholarship that various Russians had forewarned me about. First there...the U.S. to be comparable to my Russian students in the classroom but find that most Russians have much more catholic interests...not able to broaden my network of Russians studying the U.S. as much as I hoped. Many younger Russian faculty have dropped out of academia...
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Andrei Bitov on "Russian Wealth"

Journal article by Cynthia Simmons; International Fiction Review, Vol. 34, 2007

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Authors, Russian--Criticism and interpretation, Bitov, Andrei--Criticism and interpretation, Periodicals--Social aspects, Russia--Economic aspects, Russia--History, Russian Wealth (Periodical)--Social aspects, Russian literature--Analysis, Russian literature--History, Russian writers--Criticism and interpretation

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...recognized the underbelly of the Russian past, he was born into the tradition of the wealth of Russian high culture: "My big family...Andreev, the most recent composer--Rachmaninov." (8...novel, on the legacy of the Russian land and common people. These...everything that Russia and Russians have inherited. Humans descend...
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Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination

Journal article by Patricia Herlihy; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (Book)--Book reviews

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...Stalins Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the...historian, writer, artist, or composer in Josef Stalins Ukraine...antagonism, the orthodox theme of Russian history prior to World War...national state-building both in Russian and in Ukrainian history...were the forebearers of both Russians and Ukrainians, the latter...

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Magazine Articles on: russian composer

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The Colour of Music: The Dissonance and Abstraction of 20th-Century Composers Influenced a Generation of Visual Artists, Writes Sholto Byrnes

Magazine article by Sholto Byrnes; New Statesman, Vol. 136, November 5, 2007

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Composers--Works, Kandinsky, Wassily--Works, Norwich, England--Exhibitions, Painters, Russian--Works, Russian painters--Works, Schoenberg, Arnold--Works

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...Dissonance and Abstraction of 20th-Century Composers Influenced a Generation of Visual Artists...forerunners and relations of the euphonium). Composers began to abandon chordal resolution...on the other hand, regarded modern composers with contempt. The excellent accompanying...
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Typically Russian

Magazine article by Andrew Thomson; Musical Times, Vol. 151, Spring 2010

Subjects:

Composers, Musicians & conductors, Russian literature

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Typically Russian by Andrew Thomson...attacked as a composer manque making a...by the Russian composers patroness Madame...with anyone. The composers fondness for giving...which the British composer has attracted...substantiate the composers own statement that...withdrawing from the Russian delegation to the...
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The Story behind the Painful Birth of Shostakovich's Sonata Op. 147 for Viola and Piano-the Composer's Final Work

Magazine article by Fedor Druzhinin; Strings, Vol. 21, December 2006

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Books, Chamber music, Composers, Druzhinin, Fedor, Musical recordings, Musicians & conductors, Shostakovich, Dimitri (1906-75)

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...time, in the mid-1970s, composer Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich...piece to the copyist of the Composers Union, because its impossible...with Maria Dmitrievna, the Russian princess and composer. I arrived at 10 oclock...with Moscows most prominent composers and musicians. Many of Shostakovichs...
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Chopin: The Public Face of Poland: During His Brief Life, the Polish Master of the Musical Miniature Became a Living Symbol of His Troubled Nation. on the 200th Anniversary of the Composer's Birth, Adam Zamoyski Looks at the Reception Given to Chopin by a Divided Public When He Visited Britain in 1848, a Year of Revolution throughout Europe

Magazine article by Adam Zamoyski; History Today, Vol. 60, April 2010

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Centennial celebrations, Centennial celebrations, etc., Chopin, Frederic--Appreciation, Composers--Appreciation

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...Anniversary of the Composers Birth, Adam Zamoyski...innovative and patriotic of composers, but he was no revolutionary...attempted to throw off the Russian yoke, the 20-year-old composer was in Vienna on the...successful, defeating the Russians in a series of battles...have passed under Russian rule. This seemed...the leading German composers such as Mendelssohn...
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Tell Tchaikovsky the News: Choreographer Boris Eifman Talks about Tchaikovsky: The Mystery of Life and Death, His Ballet about the Composer's Tortured Sexuality

Magazine article by Joseph Carman; The Advocate, May 13, 2003

Subjects:

Choreographers--Interviews, Composers--Portrayals, Eifman, Boris--Works, Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich--Portrayals, Tchaikovsky: The Mystery of Life and Death (Ballet)--Public opinion

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...has tended to ignore the composers sexuality. That is, until Russian choreographer Boris Eifman...Eifmans ballet evokes the composers sexual anguish; homoerotic...why he might relate to the composers struggles with repression...handsome prince while the composer weeps. Such risk-taking...

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Newspaper Articles on: russian composer

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Stalin's Musical Nemesis; Christopher Morley Examines the Legacy of Russian Composer Shostakovich

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 13, 2011

Subjects:

Composers, Stalin, Joseph

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Examines the Legacy of Russian Composer Shostakovich. One...fact that the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev died...loved contemporary composers by the most feared...to hear two of the composers most personal works...written only by a Soviet composer brought up in the best...
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Explosive Finale for Phil's Emotional Celebration of Russian Composers; CLASSICAL Petrenko's Glorious Rachmaninov/ Philharmonic Hall ....

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 28, 2011

Subjects:

Composers

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...Phils Emotional Celebration of Russian Composers; CLASSICAL Petrenkos Glorious...triple bill with the Russian composers passionate Symphony No.2 and...the project stalled and the Russian composer rejigged around half of the...
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CULTURE: Genius Born in Turmoil; Terry Grimley Looks at the Legacy of Russian Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Whose Centenary Year Is Being Celebrated with Performances across the West Midlands This Spring

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 9, 2006

Subjects:

Composers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Grimley Looks at the Legacy of Russian Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Whose...Shostakovich was one of the great composers of the 20th century. If you...arguably the 20th century composer. What sets him aside from...in a fascist country - the composer was football-mad) to opera...
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Liszt Was the Elvis of Classical Music; as the RLPO Marks 10 Years of Its Partnership with Classic FM, Laura Davis Discovers the Strange Stories Behind Some of History's Most Famous Composers

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 1, 2010

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers

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...in the month. Hungarian composer Franz Liszt gets his moment...and his fingers." But the composers pride was to come before...creative directors story about Russian composer Tchaikovsky - "a completely...on his head." Even those composers who were confident in their...
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He's a Conductor and a Composer - and He Is Only 14; the Remarkable London Schoolboy Alex Prior Talks to Norman Lebrecht

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 30, 2007

Subjects:

Composers, Concerts

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Hes a Conductor and a Composer - and He Is Only 14; the Remarkable...Garden at two years old by his Russian mother, Elena, he danced...sometime singing pupil of the Russian bass Evgeny Nesterenko, had...Carnegie Hall in an evening of Russian folklore and privately recorded...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: russian composer

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Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...moosorg ske, 1839 81, Russian composer. His name is also transliterated...associations with other composers encouraged him to become a composer himself, although his musical...influenced not only Russian composers but also Claude Debussy...
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Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ilyech chikof ske, 1840 93, Russian composer, b. Kamsko-Votkinsk...is a towering figure in Russian music and one of the most popular composers in history. The son of...opposed to the aims of the Russian nationalist composers and...
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Shostakovich, Dmitri

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...SHOSTAKOVICH, DMITRI dyime tre shostoko vich, 1906 75, Russian composer, b. St. Petersburg. Shostakovich studied at...choral portions, Shostakovich was basically a Russian nationalist composer whose work represented traditional classical forms...
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Cui, CÉsar Antonovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...anto novich kue , 1835 1918, Russian composer and critic, a military engineer...championed the group of nationalist Russian composers known as The Five , consisting...he was the least distinctive composer. He was largely self-taught...
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Balakirev, Mili Alekseyevich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...vich b l ke ryef, 1837 1910, Russian composer and conductor, leader of the group...Petersburg and conducted (1867 69) the Russian Music Society and (1883 94) the...music combined romanticism with Russian and Caucasian folk songs. See...

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