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A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.   One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873‿1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a composer fundamentally hostile to musical modernism. The original essays collected here show how he was more responsive to aspects of contemporary m...

A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a composer fundamentally hostile to musical modernism. The original essays collected here show how he was more responsive to aspects of contemporary mus...

This book challenges that assumption by exploring the ways in which song crosses national borders. Whether by incorporating foreign canons of poetry alongside native ones, or conveying literature across linguistic borders through acts of performance, song functions as a means of translation.

A timely attempt to re-map a critical appreciation of early twentieth-century modernism through a Nordic lens.

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This edition provides the full set of letters in English translation. It will be complemented by making the letters available online in their original language.

Drawing extensively on Tchaikovsky's uncensored letters and diaries, this biography explores the composer's life in the artistic culture of nineteenth-century Russian society, revealing how he became a figure of international renown.