The Three Apostles of Russian Music: The Soviet Avant-Garde

Gregor Tassie

doi:10.5771/9781793644305

Summary

The Three Apostles of Russian Music looks at three figures in the Soviet avant-garde who led modernist music in the 1920s. Mosolov, Popov, and Roslavets were popular composers who are now unfortunately forgotten. These remarkable musicians produced compositions like the sensational machine music Foundry by Mosolov. The first symphony by Popov attracted musicians in Europe and America but was banned after the premiere, while Roslavets discovered serialism before Schoenberg, opening up a new trend in modernism. This book is the first study in English of the work, lives, and legacies of these “apostles” of the Russian avant-garde.

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright Year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4429-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4430-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 386
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Abbreviations No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. List of Figures No access
1. Notes No access
1. Abasa and Malevich No access
2. The Moscow Conservatoire No access
3. Notes No access
1. Futurism and the Revolution No access
2. Notes No access
1. Agitprop Music No access
2. Notes No access
1. Early Years No access
2. Notes No access
1. Theater Music No access
2. Notes No access
1. The Fourth Choral Symphony No access
2. Tales about Lenin No access
3. Quartet Symphony No access
4. The Fifth Symphony No access
5. A Period of Reflection No access
6. The Valedictory Sixth Symphony No access
7. Notes No access
1. Revolution and Civil War No access
2. Notes No access
1. String Quartet No. 1 No access
2. The Hero No access
3. The Dam No access
4. Synopsis of The Dam No access
5. Rails Ringing No access
6. Les Cloches de Corneville No access
7. Travels to Central Asia No access
8. Notes No access
1. Mosolov’s Appeal to Stalin No access
2. Notes No access
1. Mikhail Matyushin No access
2. Arthur Lourié No access
3. Joseph Schillinger No access
4. Notes No access
1. Primary Sources No access
2. Secondary Sources No access
1. Nikolay Roslavets No access
2. Gavriil Popov No access
3. Alexander Mosolov No access
4. Mikhail Matyushin No access
1. Nikolay Roslavets No access
2. Gavriil Popov No access
3. Alexander Mosolov No access
4. Mikhail Mayushin No access
Index No access Pages 367 - 384
About the Author No access Pages 385 - 386