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This thesis explores the ways in which the aftershock of an apparent crisis in Soviet identity after the death of Stalin in 1953 can be detected in selected musical-literary works of the Stagnation era (1964-1985). Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalinism in his 'Secret Speech' of…

Title of Dissertation: A SHARED HERITAGE: CROSS-CULTURAL INFLUENCES BETWEEN POLISH AND RUSSIAN VIOLIN REPERTOIRE OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES Jesse Muñoz, Jr., Doctor of Musical Arts, 2021

Composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919 – 1996) wrote six sonatas for violin and piano, and three sonatas for solo violin, as well as an extensive number of chamber music, symphonic, vocal, and instrumental works. There is very little written on Weinberg’s violin and piano sonatas. T…