Modernism in Russian Piano Music Skriabin, Prokofiev, and Their Russian Contemporaries

• Main Author: Roberts, Peter Deane (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Indiana University Press 1993
• Subjects: History of other lands; History of specific lands
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The purpose of this study is to review some of the techniques developed by Russian composers in the early part of the twentieth century, down to the active assertion of state control of the arts in the Soviet Union, which began in 1929. The study centers principally on music for the piano, with an e...