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Rachmaninoff and His World
Series: The Bard Music Festival
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This volume will appeal to classical music enthusiasts, scholars of Russian culture, and readers interested in the intersection of music and modernity. It is especially suitable for those seeking a deeper understanding of Rachmaninoff's artistic legacy beyond the usual Romantic narrative.
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A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.
One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873β1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a composer fundamentally hostile to musical modernism.
The original essays collected in Rachmaninoff and His World show how he was more responsive to aspects of contemporary musical life than is often thought, and how his deeply felt sense of Russianness coexisted with an appreciation of American and European culture. In particular, the essays document his involvement with intellectual and artistic circles in prerevolutionary Moscow and how the form of modernity they promoted shaped his early output.
This volume represents one of the first serious explorations of Rachmaninoffβs successful career as a composer, pianist, and conductor, first in late Imperial Russia, and then after emigration in both the United States and interwar Europe.
Shedding light on some unfamiliar works, especially his three operas and his many songs, the book also includes a substantial number of new documents illustrating Rachmaninoffβs celebrity status in America.
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"The editor and contributor, Philip Ross Bullock, should be congratulated on producing a collection of articles that adds much detailed substance. . . . It deserves a place in libraries everywhere and in the collections of those music lovers for whom βromanticβ is not a dirty word." — Slavonic and East European Review
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ISBN: 9780226823751
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 August 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Illustration: 18 halftones, 25 line drawings
Contributors:
- Edited by Philip Ross Bullock
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 540g
Pages: 384
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About the Author
Philip Ross Bullock is professor of Russian literature and music at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor in Russian at Wadham College, Oxford. He is the author of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and coeditor of Musicβs Nordic Breakthrough: Modernity, Aesthetics, and Cultural Exchange, 1890β1930, with Daniel M. Grimley.
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