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Title Rachmaninoff and his world / edited by Philip Ross Bullock
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (383 pages)
Series Bard Music Festival
Bard Music Festival series.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Permissions and Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Dating -- Moscow and Modernity -- Reading the Popular Pessimist: Thought, Feeling, and Dance in Rachmaninoff 's Symphonic Narrative -- Sergei Rachmaninoff and Moscow Musical Life -- Love Triumphant: Rachmaninoff 's Eros, the Silver Age, and the Middlebrow -- Rachmaninoff and the "Vocalise": Word and Music in the Russian Silver Age -- Three Operas -- Tchaikovsky's Echoes, Chaliapin's Sobs: Aleko, Rachmaninoff, and the Contemporary -- Rachmaninoff 's Miserly Knight (On Money, Honor, and the Means to Create) -- Burning for You: Rachmaninoff 's Francesca da Rimini -- New Worlds -- Rachmaninoff and the Celebrity Interview: A Selection of Documents from the American Press -- The Eighteenth Variation -- "One of the Outstanding Musical Events of All Time": The Philadelphia Orchestra's 1939 Rachmaninoff Cycle -- "The Case of Rachmaninoff ": The Music of a White Emigré in the USSR -- Aesthetic Ambition and Popular Taste: The Divergent Paths of Paderewski, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff -- Index -- Notes on the Contributors -- Volumes Published In Conjunction With The Bard Music Festival
Summary A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a composer fundamentally hostile to musical modernism. The original essays collected here show how he was more responsive to aspects of contemporary musical life than is often thought, and how his deeply felt sense of Russianness coexisted with an appreciation of American and European culture. In particular, the essays document his involvement with intellectual and artistic circles in prerevolutionary Moscow and how the form of modernity they promoted shaped his early output. This volume represents one of the first serious explorations of Rachmaninoff's successful career as a composer, pianist, and conductor, first in late Imperial Russia, and then after emigration in both the United States and interwar Europe. Shedding light on some unfamiliar works, especially his three operas and his many songs, the book also includes a substantial number of new documents illustrating Rachmaninoff's celebrity status in America
Subject Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943.
SUBJECT Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943 fast
Subject Composers -- Russia -- Biography
MUSIC / General.
Composers
Russia
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Bullock, Philip Ross, editor
ISBN 9780226823744
0226823741