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Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music
Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music (1970) is a thought-provoking review of Soviet music and musicians. This scholarly and readable distillation of factual information and well-reasoned conclusions is the result of many years of exhaustive study of reference works, monographs and journals, as well as musical scores both published and unpublished, all supplemented by interviews and personal participation in Soviet musical life. The author presents a cogent, critical analysis of the relationship between extra-musical pressures and the theory and practice of artistic autonomy. The lives and works of some two dozen major Soviet composers are discussed, and insight is provided into Soviet thinking about music, and thinking about the arts.
Part 1. Soviet Russian Cultural Ideology and Music 1. Before October 2. Axes of Development 3. Music and Politicians: Lunacharsky and Others 4. Music and Revolution: 1917–32 5. Music and Reaction: 1932– Part 2. The Older Generation of Soviet Composers 6. Ippolitov-Ivanov 7. Reinhold Gliere 8. Sergei Vasilenko 9. Boris Asaf’ev 10. Nikolai Miaskovsky 11. Dmitrii Arakishvili 12. Uzeir Gadzhibekov 13. Sergei Prokofieff Part 3. The Middle Generation of Soviet Composers 14. Iurii Shaporin 15. Dmitrii Shostakovich 16. Vissarion Shebalin 17. Aram Khachaturian 18. Dmitrii Kabalevsky 19. Tikhon Khrennikov 20. Georgii Sviridov 21. Andrei Balanchivadze Part 4. The Younger Generation of Soviet Composers 22. Rodion Shchedrin 23. German Galynin 24. Otar Taktakishvili 25. Kara Karaev 26. Fikret Amirov 27. Other Young Composers
Biography
Stanley Dale Krebs was the first American to be enrolled at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and whose works were played in America and abroad. He was conductor of the Santa Maria (California) Symphony Orchestra, and was Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
