Mieczysław Weinberg : between East and West / edited by Michelle Assay and David Fanning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fanning, David (David J.), editor.

Assay, Michelle, editor.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 277.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 277

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Vaĭnberg, M. (Moiseĭ)--Criticism and interpretation.

Vaĭnberg, M.

Composers--Russia.

Composers.

Composers--Soviet Union.

Composers--Poland.

Music--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Music.

Music--Russia (Federation)--History--20th century.

Music--Poland--History--20th century.

Vaĭnberg, M. (Moiseĭ).

Poland.

Russia (Federation).

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Physical Description:

xiv, 288 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Mieczyslaw Weinberg

Between East and West

Place of Publication:

London : Published by The British Academy, [2026]

Summary:

Polish-born, Soviet-domiciled composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) is the 21st century's most remarkable rediscovery in the field of art music. He enjoyed considerable renown in his adopted Russia from the 1940s to the 1970s. Subsequently, however, his reputation tailed off, as he increasingly became regarded as a Shostakovich epigone. As a composer of non-orthodox background, he was never marketed for export.It has taken the posthumous advocacy of top-class Western performers to fully reveal the quality of his music and its distinctiveness from the Shostakovich circle, not least in the areas of memory and memorialisation. This edited volume of papers brings together musicologists, performers and personal acquaintances of the composer from Eastern, Central and Western Europe, the United States and Australia, to provide a state-of-the-art compendium of research on his life and music.Newly uncovered documentation is offered on Weinberg's traumatic early years (which involved two narrow escapes from Nazi invasions) and his family background, along with reflections on identity, his place within 20th-century music history, and close readings of individual works, notably through the lens of intertextuality.

Contents:

Weinberg research : from absense to abundance / David Fanning and Michelle Assay

Biography. A non-standard papa : life with Mieczysław Weinberg / Victoria Bishops ; Biographical texts about Mieczysław Weinberg : peculiarities and challenges of biography as a research methof / Anonina Klokova ; Fragments of a life untold : Weinberg's early biography / Verena Mogl ; Weinberg in Belorussia / Inessa Dvuzhilnaya ; Weinberg in Washington, DC, with some observations on the composer's father, Shmuel Weinberg / Bret Werb

Identitites. Weinberg and the Warsaw Autumn Festival : reactive modernism and nostalgia / Daniel Elphick ; Shamor v'Zachor : observing and remembering Mieczysław Weinberg / Nicky Gluch ; Weinberg as a 'Bronze Age' figure, or Why was Weinberg not appreciated in his lifetime? / Levon Hakobian

Poetry, symphony and stage. Julian Tuwim and Mieczysław Weinberg / Aleksander Laskowski ; Song of the survivor? Some thoughts about Weinberg's Ninth symphony, 'Lines that escaped destruction', op. 93 / Agnieszka Nowok-Zych ; Mieczysław Weinberg's settings of Shakespeare's sonnets / Stefan Weiss ; Soviet and non-Soviet : Weinberg and his contemporaries at the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenk Music Theatre / Dmitry Abaulin

Musical language and intertextuality. Closeness and distance : Weiberg's Piano quintet in context / Christoph Flamm ; Weinberg's 'cooking-pot' and the 'quotation cube' / David Fanning

Keeping Weinberg alive. Meeting and promoting Weinberg / Tommy Persson ; Discovering Weinberg / Gidon Kremer.

Notes:

Includes bibilographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781836245636

1836245637

OCLC:

1523907883

Publisher Number:

CIPO000315758