Eighteenth-century Russian music / Marina Ritzarev.
| Author/creator |
Rytsareva, M. (Marina) |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006. |
| Description | xxvii, 388 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Variant title | 18th century Russian music |
| Contents | Rethinking eighteenth-century Russian music. Historiography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The complexity of Russian identity -- Two capitals -- Pre-Petrine legacy. Folklore -- The rise and fall of Skomorokhi culture -- Seeking an art-music tradition (seventeenth century) -- Religious chant -- Kanty and Psalmy -- Ukrainization -- Instrumental music -- Music in the theatre -- Toward the new Russian idiom: between Germans and Italians; between Italians and Russians. Peter the Great - pro-German and anti-Italian -- Empress Anna - pro-Italian -- Araja in the 1740s -- Gregory Teplov and Russian song -- Kirill Razumovsky and Russian opera -- Semen Naryshkin and Russian horn music -- Araja's rise and fall in the 1750s -- At the court of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich. Vincenzo Manfredini at the Oranienbaum court -- Maxim Berezovsky's early career -- The 'Thaw' of the 1760s. Manfredini in the 1760s -- Baldassare Galuppi -- Berezovsky: choral work of the 1760s -- Liturgy -- Berezovsky leaves for Italy -- The young Dmitry Bortniansky -- Lessons of the 1770s: Berezovsky and Bortniansky in Italy. Bortniansky's missions -- Berezovsky's studies -- Tommaso Traetta at the Russian court -- Bortniansky's ordeal by opera -- The moral of Berezovsky -- Bortniansky's redemption -- The city in the 1770s. Paisiello at the Russian court -- From song to song-opera -- Bortniansky and the 1780s. Bortniansky's return to Russia -- Bortniansky's concertos of the 1780s -- Bortniansky at the young court -- The late eighteenth-century Russian salon. Foreign virtuosi -- Ivan Khandoshkin and the Rus'ian idiom -- At the Lvov house or the temple of Rus'ian idiom -- The eighteenth-century Russian idiom: policy, perception, proofs -- Sarti in Russia. Sarti and Prince Potemkin -- Cimarosa's Russian episode -- Sarti returns to St Petersburg -- Sheremetev and Sarti -- Back to the imperial court -- Russian spiritual compositions -- 1790s: music and cannons. The Polonaise: Polish honour and Russian empire -- Marseillaise and Russian monarchs -- Russian freemasonry and music -- Master and serf. At the court of Count Sheremetev -- Stepan Anikeevich Degtyarev -- Degtyarev's choral music: aesthetics and style -- Early concertos -- Late concertos -- Redactions -- The choral concerto in the 1790s. Artemy Vedel -- Bortniansky's 1790s concertos -- Bortniansky in the nineteenth century. Repertoire -- Public life -- Family -- Bortniansky and the nineteenth century. |
| Abstract | Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, the author explores the development of music over the course of the eighteenth century, a period of especially intense Westernization and secularization. The book highlights the importance of previously marginalized sectors - serf culture, choral sacred culture, the contribution of foreign musicians, the significant influence of Freemasonry, the role of Ukrainian and West-European cultures and so on - as well as casting new light on the well-researched topic of Russian opera. Much new archival material is introduced, and revised biographies of the two leading eighteenth-century Russian composers, Maxim Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortniansky, are provided, as well as those of the serf composer Stepan Degtyarev and the Italian Giuseppe Sarti. The book places eighteenth-century Russian music will be of particular importance for the study of European musical cultures remote from such centers as Italy, Germany-Austria and France. Eighteenth-century Russian music is organically linked with its past and future and its contributory role in forming the Russian national identity and developing the Russian idiom is clarified. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005024441 |
| ISBN | 0754634663 (alk. paper) |
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| Music | Music Stacks | ML300.3 .R58 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |