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By Richard Taruskin

ISBN-10: 0520249798

ISBN-13: 9780520249790

ISBN-10: 0520268067

ISBN-13: 9780520268067

during the last 4 many years, Richard Taruskin's guides have redefined the sector of Russian-music research. This quantity gathers thirty-six essays on composers starting from Bortnyansky within the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky within the twenty-first, in addition to the entire recognized names in among. a few of these items, just like the ones on Chaikovsky's alleged suicide and at the interpretation of Shostakovich's legacy, have received repute of their personal correct as decisive contributions to a few of the main major debates in modern musicology. an intensive advent lays out the most concerns and a justification of Taruskin's strategy, obvious either within the gentle of his highbrow improvement and in that of the altering highbrow surroundings, which has been relatively marked through the tip of the chilly warfare in Europe.

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