Alexander Kastalsky : his life and music / Svetlana Zvereva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zvereva, S. G. (Svetlana Georgievna)

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Aleksandr Kastalʹskiĭ. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Kastalʹskiĭ, Aleksandr Dmitrievich, 1856-1926.

Kastalʹskiĭ, Aleksandr Dmitrievich.

Church musicians--Russia--Biography.

Church musicians.

Music--Russia--History and criticism.

Music.

Russia.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2003.

Contents:

1 The Kastalsky Family 1

2 The Origins of Reform 14

3 In Search of a 'Russian Style' 20

4 The Nation

a Powerful Force 27

5 'Moscow will come into its own!' 35

6 History Stretching Back into the Past 40

7 Smolensky's Reforms 46

8 'New Antiquity' 55

9 Kastalsky's Discovery 67

10 At the Crossroads 75

11 The Moscow School of Ethnographers 86

12 Historical Reconstructions 94

13 All-Night Vigil 109

14 A Conservatoire for Sacred Music 125

15 At the Height of his Fame 139

16 Musical 'Plays' 151

17 'Requiem for Fallen Brothers' 163

18 The Late Sacred Choral Music 175

19 The End of the Synodal School's History 181

20 'Wretched Old Age has set in' 204

Epilogue: Kastalsky and Asafyev 222.

Notes:

Translation and 2nd version of S.G. Zvereva's Aleksandr Kastalʹskiĭ, including results of the author's research conducted since the original 1999 publication.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-274) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0754609758

OCLC:

50604920