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Ten Composers from the former USSR

Viktor Suslin, Dmitry Smirnov, Arvo Pärt, Yury Kasparov, Galina Ustvolskaya, Nikolai Sidelnikov, Elena Firsova Vladimir Martynov, Andrei Eshpai, Boris Chaikovsky

Edited by Valeria Tsenova

(studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 25), ca. VII + 271 pp., music illus., fotogr. illus., available, 
price: 49,95 € (in Germany); 51,30 € (in Austria), 98,00 CHF (other countries).
ISBN 3-928864-84-X (Format 21 x 14,8 cm)

What happened to contemporary music in the Soviet Union after Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev? This book is a valuable source of information on the composers of the generation following these three great innovators. It is a document of the "hidden" period of Russian music, of what happened after the denunciation of Shostakovich and Prokofiev by the Composers' Union. The most interesting and innovative composers from Russia and the for­mer Soviet republics are profiled by leading Russian musicologists. Featured composers include: Viktor Suslin, Dmitry Smirnov, Arvo Pärt, Yury Kasparov, Galina Ustvolskaya, Nikolai Sidelnikov, Elena Firsova Vladimir Martynov, Andrei Eshpai, Boris Chaikovsky

About the editor:

Dr. Valeria Tsenova is a professor at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and a spe­cia­list on the contemporary music theory. She is well known for her works published in Russia and abroad. She has written extensively on basic problems of modern musical composition and has published 10 books and a lot of articles in different languages. Among them:

Edison Denisov, a monographic research with Yuri Kholopov as the co-author, Amsterdam (Harwood Academic Publishers) 1995;

Underground Music from the Former USSR, Amsterdam (Harwood Academic Publishers) 1997;

Zahlenmystik in der Musik von Sofia Gubaidulina, Berlin (Verlag Ernst Kuhn) 2001.

ISBN 3-928864-84-X