Daniel Jaffé - Historical Dictionary of Russian Music

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Historical Dictionary of Russian Music

Daniel Jaff

Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts

The Scarecrow Press, Inc.

Lanham Toronto Plymouth, UK

2012

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Copyright 2012 by Daniel Jaff

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Jaff, Daniel.

Historical dictionary of Russian music / Daniel Jaff.

p. cm. (Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-8108-5311-9 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8108-7980-5 (ebook)

1. MusicRussiaDictionaries. 2. MusicRussiaHistory and criticism. I. Title.

ML101.R8J34 2012

780.947'03dc23

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Editors Foreword

Long on the periphery of European culture, it did not take long for Russiaand even the Soviet Unionto become a major constituent of European romantic, modern, and contemporary music. This did not arise out of nowhere, since there were sources in the form of church music and folk music dating at least back to the 10th century. But this hardly prepared us for the extraordinary production in the 19th century of such master composers as Glinka, Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Rachmaninov and, even in the turbulent 20th century, the modernist works of Stravinsky andagainst sometimes tremendous odds under Stalins tyrannythe masterpieces of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. And these are just a few examples, for there have been dozens of composers, conductors, and soloists on piano or violin, as well as singers and dancers who have become an integral part of our current musical tradition. Consider the career of Serge Koussevitzky, legendary conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, or the bass Feodor Chaliapin, one of operas greatest singer-actors. Indeed, when it comes to opera and even more so balletnotably the achievements of Serge Diaghilev and George Balanchineit would be hard to conceive of either genre without the Russian contribution. Today as well, when freedom has again returned to music and dance, Russians are active in all areas, albeit sometimes more abroad than at home.