Shostakovich and his world

by Fay, Laurel E.

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Full title :Shostakovich and his world / edited by Laurel E. Fay.

Summary

This collection of essays goes far in expanding the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the musician's creativity and art in terms of the expectations--historical, cultural, and political--that forged them. The collection contains documents that appear for the first time in English. Letters that young "Mitia" wrote to his mother offer a glimpse into his dreams and ambitions at the outset of his career. Shostakovich's answers to a 1927 questionnaire reveal much about his formative tastes in the arts and the way he experienced the creative process. His previously unknown letters to Stalin shed new light on Shostakovich's position with the Soviet artistic elite. The essays delve into neglected aspects of Shostakovich's formidable legacy. Simon Morrison provides an in-depth examinatino of the choreography, costumes, decor, and music of his ballet, The Bolt, and Gerard McBurney of the musical references, parodies, and quotations ins his operetta, Moscow, Cheryomushki. David Fanning looks at Shostakovich's activities as a pedagogue and the mark they left on his students' and his own music. Peter J. Schmelz explores the composer's late-period adoption of twelve-tone writing in the context of the distinctively "Soviet" practice of serialism. Other contributors include Caryl Emerson, Christopher H. Gibbs, Levon Hakobian, Leonid Maximenkov, and Rosa Sadykhova. In a provocative concluding essay, Leon Botstein reflects on the different ways listeners approach the music of Shostakovich. --

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2004

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 405 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0691120684, 9780691120683, 0691120692, 9780691120690
oclc:ocm56189992
LC Classification:ML410.S53
Dewey Decimal:780/.92

Subjects

24.50 historical studies of music: gene… Aufsatzsammlung Biographies Biography Componisten Composers -- Biography. -- 20th century… Composers -- Biography. -- Soviet Union Criticism, interpretation, etc Essays Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Šostakovič, Dmitrij Šostakovič, Dmitrij D. Šostakovič, Dmitrij Dmitrievič