Leningrad's Modernists

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For a half century and more Dmitri Shostakovich and many other Soviet musicians drew inspiration from the brief period of high modernism in which they began their careers. Controversial in its own day, the modernist movement in Leningrad has been debated ever since, first within and now outside of Russia, to the point of obscuring the nature of the achievement and leaving essential questions unanswered. This book returns to the period itself to explore the issues, the creative personalities, the thought, and the music. From these studies the reader will gain a new perspective on music in the early Soviet period and insight into its lasting consequences for twentieth-century music.

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David Haas

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«David Haas has contributed a fine study of a group of composers at work in Leningrad during the 1920s. [...] He provides excellent material on how music in Leningrad was affected by the complex currents of the Revolution, by early Soviet policies, by Anatolii Lunacharsky, by the NEP, and by the First Five-Year Plan. Also valuable is his thorough exploration of the controversial reform of the composition curriculum at the Leningrad Conservatory during the 1920s, as led by Shcherbachyov and influenced by Asaf'ev.» (Gordon D. McQuere, The Russian Review)
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