Soviet Music Research Articles

Soviet Music Since the Death of Stalin

tellectual life, used a mildly modernist work by a party-member composer as the pretext for a frontal attack on such alleged Western influences on Soviet music as formalism, atonalism, dissonance, and similar antipopular trends. In reality, however, the resolution was directed primarily against the Western concept of music as an art independent of politics, one of the absolute forms of expression of the human spirit-a concept which had struck deep roots in prerevolutionary Russia and which has exerted a powerful influence on several leading Soviet composers. The resolution called on Soviet com-

Soviet Music Today

The musical public in London knows the work of a number of outstanding Soviet composers. The works of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Kabalevsky and others have been published and performed with success more than once in Great Britain. In talking with representatives of the British musical world I was able to convince myself of their lively interest in the work of these composers and in recent events in Soviet music generally. In the following pages I shall try to satisfy that interest to some extent, and to deal with some of the more important changes in Soviet music, which, as I think, have occurred during the last three or four years.

Soviet Music

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The Changing Style of Soviet Music

discussions of a politically desirable style of composition.' Schematically, the evolution of Soviet music may be divided into three phases: (i) 1917-1927, when radical Russian musicians attempted to create a new revolutionary art on the ruins of the old; (2) 1927-1936, signalized by the emergence of socalled proletarian music; (3) 1936195o, when cosmopolitan modernism and proletarian sectarianism were abandoned, and the ideal of Socialist Realism, an art national in form and socialist in content, in Stalin's phrase, became the approved slogan. It is natural that in the first flush of the Revolution extreme tendencies

The Changing Style of Soviet Music

The Changing Style of Soviet Music

Soviet Music

Soviet Music

Soviet Music and Musicians

Soviet Music and Musicians

SOVIET MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

Journal Article SOVIET MUSIC AND MUSICIANS Get access WILLIAM KOZLENKO WILLIAM KOZLENKO Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Musical Quarterly, Volume XXIII, Issue 3, July 1937, Pages 295–305, https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/XXIII.3.295 Published: 01 July 1937

Soviet Music in London

Soviet Music in London