A history of Russian music : being an account of the rise and progress of the Russian school of composers, with a survey of their lives and a description of their works / by M. Montagu-Nathan.

Author/creator Montagu-Nathan, M.
Format Book
EditionSecond edition, revised and corrected.
Publication InfoLondon : Reeves, 1918.
Descriptionviii, 346 pages : frontispiece(portrait) ; 19 cm
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Contents Part I. The pre-nationalists. Volkoff, Berezovski, Bortniansky and Verstovsky -- Glinka "A life for the Czar" -- "Russlan and Ludmilla" -- Dargomijsky [Dargomyzhsky] -- "The stone guest" and "The five" -- Seroff and Lvoff [Serov and Lvov] -- Part II. The nationalists. Balakireff [Balakirev] -- Cesar Cui -- Borodin -- Moussorgsky [Mussorgsky] -- "Boris Godounoff" -- "Khovanshchina" -- The last phase -- Rimsky-Korsakoff [Rimsky-Korsakov] -- Part III. The decline of nationalism. Glazounoff [Glazunov] -- Liadoff [Liadov] and Liapounoff [Liapunov] -- Arensky -- Tchaikovsky, Rubinstein and the ecclectics -- Taneieff [Taneyev] -- Part IV. The present movement. Rachmaninoff [Rachmaninov] -- Gliere and Ippolitoff-Ivanoff [Ippolitov-Ivanov] -- Scriabin -- Vassilenko and Grechaninoff [Grechaninov] -- Akimenko, Tcherepnin and Rebikoff [Rebikov] -- Steinberg, Medtner and Catoire -- Stravinsky -- Operatic and concert enterprises.
Abstract M. Montagu-Nathan takes an in-depth look and the history of Russian music, and a special look at the rise and progress of the Russian School of Composers.

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