A History of Russian Music - Being An Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The Russian School Of Composers With A Survey Of Their Lives And A Description Of Their Works

M. Montagu-Nathan takes an in-depth look and the history of Russian music and a special look at the rise and progress of the Russian School of Composers. Contents include: Introduction; Part 1- The Pre-nationalists. Volkoff- Berezovsky Bortniansky and Verstovsky Glinka A Life for the Czar Russian and Ludmilla Dargomijsky The Stone Guest and the Five Seroff and Lvoff. Part 2 - The Nationalists. Balakireff Cesar cui Borodin Moussorgsky Boris Goudounoff Khovantchina The Last Phase Rimsky Korsakoff. Part 3- The Decline of Nationalism. Glazounoff Liadoff and Liapounoff Arensky Tchaikovsky Rubinstein and the Eclectics Taneieff. Part 4- The Present Movement. Rachmaninoff Gliere and Ippolitoff-Ivanoff Scriabin Vassilenko and Grechaninoff Akimenko Tcherepnin and Rebikoff Steinberg Medtner and Catoire Stravinsky Operatic and Concert Enterprises Appendix I Appendix II.