Research Catalog

Title

Nikolay Myaskovsky : the conscience of Russian music / Gregor Tassie.

Author

Tassie, Gregor, 1953-

Publication

• Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Description

xviii, 395 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

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 [Publisher description]

Subjects

• Composers
• Mi͡askovskiĭ, N (Nikolaĭ), 1881-1950
• Mjaskovskij, Nikolaj Jakovlevič 1881-1950
• Biographies
• Soviet Union
• Composers > Soviet Union > Biography
• Mi︠a︡skovskiĭ, N (Nikolaĭ), 1881-1950

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 339-357), and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Childhood and youth -- The St. Petersburg Conservatoire -- A free artist -- War and revolution -- The road to Calvary -- The Red Guards -- The musical conscience of Moscow -- The planes are flying -- World fame and the patriotic war -- Cry of the wanderer -- The swan song -- The final coda -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Catalog of works.

ISBN

• 9781442231320 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1442231327 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781442231337 (ebook)
• 1442231335 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2013047283

OCLC

• 864789859
• SCSB-10438177

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library