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This page intentionally left blank 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 Editedandtranslatedby Stuart Campbell    Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge  , United Kingdom Published in the United States by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521590976 © Stuart Campbell 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2003 ISBN-13 978-0-511-06799-0 eBook (EBL) ISBN-10 0-511-06799-2 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-59097-6 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-59097-3 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. 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 vii Contents (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 viii

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This anthology of Russian music criticism reveals the reactions of leading critics to new Russian music in the period 1880-1917. Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin were in their prime, and several new generations emerged: Rachmaninoff and Skryabin, Stravinsky and Prokoviev. Works reviewed rang
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