LEONID MODERN RUSSIAN COMPOSERS TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY
JUDAH A. JOFFE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS Copyright, 3f, 937, by
INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, INC. Printed in the 17., A, CONTENTS PAGE
INTRODUCTION 11 SERGEY TANEYEFF 19 ALYEKSANDR SKRYABIN 40 IGOR
STRAVINSKI 64 SERGEY PROKOFYEFF 87 SERGEY RAKHMANINOFF 103 VLADIMIR
RYEBIKOFF 121 NIKOLA Y METNER 129 A. GRYECHANINOFF 144 NIKOLAY
MYASKOVSKI 149 SAMUIL FEINBERG 163 MIKHAYIL GNYESIN 172 ALYEKSANDR
KREIN 181 GRIGORIY KREIN 137 ALYEKSEY STANCHINSKI . . . . . . . 190
FYODOR AKIMYENKLO . 195 NIKOLAY ROSLAVYETS 201 BOLYESLAV YAVORSKI
AND His PUPILS 208 THE Moscow GROUP OF CONSERVATIVES, . . . 214 THE
LENINGRAD GROUP ., . .,, 222 THE AMERICAN GROUP OF RUSSIAN
COMPOSERS . . 226 THE YOUNG COMPOSERS OF RUSSIA 229 THE
RUSSIAN-PARISIAN SCHOOL 235 THE MUSICAL CREATIVE ART OF THE RUSSIAN
REV OLUTION 242 APPENDIX 251 5 LEONID SABANEYEFF THE author o the
present book is a Russian musical critic and composer. Born in 1881
he was graduated from the Moscow 1 Univbrsity, where he specialised
in mathematics and the natural sciences. He later studied at the
Mos cow Conservatory under Professors S. I. Taneyeff and P.
Shlotser. In the field of composition and musical criticism he
became a zealous partisan of modernism and bold innovation in art.
He was one of the first to greet the appearance of Skryabin, of
whom he has written a great deal, contributing much to the
disclosure of the musical essence and understanding of that
composer. He was musical critic and correspondent of numerous
Russian and foreign periodicals and was contributor to the magazine
Appollon St. Petersburg, Melos Berlin, Der Blaue Rifter Dresden .
He has written the following booksSkryabin, so far the only
exhaustive monograph on the composer in the Russian language The
Music of Speech A History of Russian Music A General History of
Music Reminiscences of Skryabin. In addition to these, a number of
wtoks of a theoretical and scientific nature Chopins Etudes The
Phenomenalogy of the Musical Creative Process Foundations of
Positive Musical Esthetics. While residing in Russia until 1926, he
devoted much time to musical social work, was an active member of
the Russian Academy of Fine Arts and the Chairman of its musical
section and the President of the Association of Contemporary Music
in Moscow, around which the composers of the left wing were
grouped. 7 8 LEONID SABANEYEFF The author has been active as a
composer since 1901. He has written a number of pieces for the
piano, among them an Etude-Nocturne, two grand sonatas and many
preludes and poems, two piano trios and a Violin Sonata, and a
Chaconne for a symphonic orchestra and organ. At present he is at
work on a composition on a text of The Revelations of St. John, and
this composition of the type of oratorio with acting has been
planned on a grandiose scale. MODE RN RUSSIAN COMPOSERS
INTRODUCTION THE present book is Intended for the foreign reader.
This has forced certain characteristics upon its structure, style
and exposition. The author could not treat certain phenomena with
as much detail as might be possible in a book for Rus sian readers
who are thoroughly familiar with all the pe culiarities of the
Russian musical world and Russian life in general which differ so
markedly from the Western European world. On the other hand, the
author deemed himself obliged to explain a scries of phenomena and
facts moreminutely than would be necessary in the interests of a
Russian reader. Many events of Russian musical life are bound up
with other events of Russian life, and are cither by themselves
unknown to the foreigner or bound up with facts unknown to him.
Russian musical history is generally a terra incognita to the
Western reader, frequently he possesses wrong notions about it, and
the chain of influences under which Russian creative music has been
developing often appears to the for eign reader in an improper,
perverse or distorted light...
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