Russians on Russian Music, 1880-1917: An Anthology

285 Pages·2003·1.45 MB·English

by  Stuart Campbell

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CAMPBELL

Russians on Russian music, 1880–1917
ThissecondanthologyofRussianwritingonRussianmusicbe-
ginsin1880(wherethefirstvolumeconcluded)andendsin1917.
It brings for the first time to an English-speaking readership the
thoughtsofleadingRussianmusiccriticsastheyreacttotheRus-
sianmusicnewtothem,duringaperiodwhenallaspectsofmusi-
callifeweredevelopingrapidly.Musiccriticismhadbecomemore
sure-footed, if no less opinionated. These reviews demonstrate
greater awareness both of music history and of contemporary
musicabroad.TheperiodcoversthelatecareersofTchaikovsky
and Rimsky-Korsakov as well as late works of Borodin and
Balakirev, and the emergence of Musorgsky’s compositions.
Works by the intervening generation, including Arensky,
GlazunovandLyadov,arealsoreviewedandthebookconcludes
withcoverageofworksbytheMoscowSchool,includingMedt-
ner, Rachmaninoff and Skryabin and the early compositions of
StravinskyandProkofiev.
StuartCampbellisHonorarySeniorResearchFellowintheDe-
partment of Music and at the Institute for Central and East
European Studies, University of Glasgow. He is author of V. F.
Odoyevsky and the Formation of Russian Musical Taste in the
NineteenthCentury(1989)andeditorandtranslatorofRussians
onRussianMusic,1830–1880(1994).

Russians on Russian music, 1880–1917
An anthology
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Stuart Campbell
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CONTENTS
Preface p age ix
Introduction xi
Listofsources xv
Chapter One T chaikovsky 1
(a) Laroche:LiturgyofStJohnChrysostom(1880) 1
(b) Cui:P.Tchaikovsky’sManfredSymphony(1886) 10
(c) Laroche:[ManfredandHamlet](1893) 13
(d) Kashkin:P.I.Tchaikovsky’snewsymphony[No.5]
(1889) 16
(e) Laroche: P. T chaikovsky’s Mazep p a(1889) 18
(f) Laroche:P.Tchaikovskyandmusicaldrama
[TheEnchantress](1890) 24
(g) Kashkin: The Queen of Sp ades(1890) 32
(h) Laroche:[SymphonyNo.6](1893) 38
(i) Rozenov:[SymphonyNo.6](1896) 40
Chapter Two Rimsky-Korsakov 42
(a) Laroche:[TheSnowmaiden](1885) 42
(b) Cui: Sadko, op era-bı¨lina (1898) 54
(c) Engel’:KashcheytheImmortal(1902) 60
(d) Petrovsky:TheLegendoftheInvisibleCityofKitezh
andtheMaidenFevroniya(1907) 64
(e) Engel’:TheGoldenCockerel(1909) 84
Chapter Three Othercomposersoftheformer
Balakirevcircle 92
(a) Cui:[worksbyBorodinandMusorgsky](1880) 92
(b) Cui:Borodin’s[First]Quartet(1881) 93
(c) Cui:[worksbyMusorgsky,Balakirevand
Rimsky-Korsakov](1887) 95
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(d) Kruglikov:[worksbyBalakirev,Lyadov,Glazunov,
BorodinandRimsky-Korsakov](1890) 97
(e) Kruglikov:PrinceIgor(1890) 102
(f) Rozenov:Khovanshchina(1897) 124
(g) Engel’:[Balakirev’sSecondSymphony](1909) 129
(h) Kolomiytsev:[PicturesatanExhibition](1909) 130
Chapter Four TheBelyayevgeneration 132
(a) Cui:[FathersandSons](1888) 132
(b) Laroche:A.S.Arensky’sStringQuartet(1888) 138
(c) Ossovsky:A.S.Arensky(1906) 141
(d) Engel’:Glazunovasasymphonist(1907) 143
(e) Karat¨ıgin:InmemoryofA.K.Lyadov(1914) 159
Chapter Five Moscowandhercomposers 168
(a) Kashkin:TheMoscowSchoolinMusic(1910) 168
(b) Engel’:ACantatabyS.I.Taneyev(1915) 170
(c) Ossovsky:S.V.Rachmaninoff(1904) 175
(d) Engel’:[Rachmaninoffoperas](1906) 178
(e) Yakovlev:S.V.Rachmaninoff(1911) 180
(f) Myaskovsky:N.Medtner(1913) 185
(g) Preobrazhensky:[The‘newdirection’inchurchmusic]
(1924) 193
Chapter Six Newstylisticdirections 198
(a) Engel’:ThemusicofSkryabin(1909) 198
(b) Konyus:Skryabin’sPrometheus(1911) 205
(c) Myaskovsky:[TheFirebird](1911) 207
(d) Myaskovsky:Petrushka(1912) 209
(e) Karat¨ıgin: The Rite of Sp ring(1914) 213
(f) Myaskovsky:SergeyProkofiev(1913) 219
(g) Engel’:[SergeyProkofiev](1917) 221
(h) Karat¨ıgin:ThemostrecenttrendsinRussianmusic
(1914) 224
Epilogue 234
Asaf’yev:Pathwaysintothefuture(1918) 234
Index 259
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