Musicologists, pianists, composers and music-lovers in general will welcome the re-issue and second edition of Larry Sitsky's "Busoni and the Piano", which has been out of print for a number of years. The second edition, which brings various aspects of the book up-to-date, will thus once again be available. Since the book was written in the late 1970s, Busoni has re-emerged as an important figure in early 20th-century music, and moreover, one who seems to be exerting an ever-widening influence on current thought and pianism.
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This is the first book to comprehensively cover all of the Australian piano music of the 20th century. It is lavishly illustrated with over 300 music examples, giving a very clear picture of the various composers and styles.
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Detailing Anton Rubinstein's pianistic and conducting repertoire, this work provides insight into Russian, 19th-century performance practice. The biography presents a sober assessment of Rubinstein's place as a great pianist and a major influence in Russian music education.
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• Historical Background - Anatoliy V. Lunacharsky, the Cultured Commissar.
• Part 1 The Precursors: Valdimir I. Rebikov - the Inventor of Whole-tone Music-- Aleksei V. Stanchinskiy - the Diatonic Webern.
• Part 2 The Big Three: Nikolai A. Roslavets - the Russian Schoenberg-- Aleksandr V. Mosolov - the Man of Steel-- Arthur V. Lourie - the Decadent Out of Place.
• Part 3 The Smaller Five: Leonid A. Polovinkin - the Partial Avant-gardist-- Vladimir V. Shcherbachev - Old Wine in New Vessels-- Lev K. Knipper - Wind from the West-- Boris N. Liatoshinski - the Passionate Slav-- Vladimir M. Deshevov - the Man of the Theatre.
• Part 4 The Reluctant Avant-gardists: Samuil E. Feinberg - the Post-Scriabin Pianist-- Anatoliy N. Aleksandrov - The Post-Rachmaninovian-- Boris A. Aleksandrov.
• Part 5 The Jewish School: Aleksandr A. Krein-- Grigoriy A. Krein-- Yulian G. Krein-- Aleksandr M. Veprik - the Ukrainian Bartok and Bloch-- Mikhail F. Gnessin - the Jewish Glinka.
• Part 6 Composers in Exile: Ivan A. Vishnegradsky - Microtones-- Nikolai Obukhov - Mystic Beyond Scriabin-- Iosif M. Schillinger - Gershwin's Teacher-- Aleksandr N. Tcherepnine - Suave Internationalist.
• Part 7 Musicologists and Transients: Sergei V. Protopopov - the Post-Scriabin Composer-- Leonid L. Sabaneev - Would-be Scientist Becomes Critic-- Dmitriy M. Melkikh - Rhapsodist-- Gavriil N. Popov - Contrapuntalist-- Aleksei S. Zhivotov - Notorious for One Piece-- Efim Golyshchev - the First Serialist?-- Georgi M. Rimsky-Korsakov - Microtonist-- Appendix - Further Scores for Study and Reference.
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Soviet and Russian music of the first third of the 20th century - with the exception of the music of a few high-profile composers who were officially sponsored by the State - is still largely unexplored territory, known only to a few specialists. Nevertheless, the music has considerable intrinsic value well beyond its curiosity appeal, and includes many pieces unaccountably forgotten and certainly worth reviving, to the ultimate enhancement of concert repertoire. The study of this music also explains much about the foundations of Soviet culture and its subsequent suppression and decline under the Stalinist yoke. The purpose of this volume is to stimulate interest in this little-known area of Soviet/Russian music. The works charted here constitute a great flowering of avant-garde music which was then savagely dealt with for Stalin's political purposes.
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