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(Schott). Rodion Shchedrin is internationally recognized as the
pre-eminent contemporary composer of the Russian modern school. His
autobiography looks back over an eventful life and provides a
variety of stimulating insights behind the facade of the
international music scene. Along the way Shchedrin elaborates
highly personal views on the political situation and many other
aspects of life in the former Soviet Union, turning an unsparing
eye on the machinery of ideological repression exerted on artists
as they struggled to interpret and conform to the constantly
mutating diktats of the regime. A wealth of anecdotes and humorous
observations offer the reader glimpses of the author's essentially
sanguine and life-enhancing disposition. Rodion Shchedrin was born
in Moscow in 1932. He studied composition and piano at the Moscow
Conservatoire and quickly made his way to international recognition
in both disciplines. His ballets, symphonic works, piano concertos
and chamber music compositions are regularly performed in the
leading theatres and concert halls of the world. Rodion Shchedrin
and his wife, the prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, today make
their homes in Moscow and Munich, shuttling between the two
although, as Shchedrin prepares to enter his ninth decade of life,
his ceaseless travels around the globe show no sign of diminishing.
English translation by Anthony Phillips.
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