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9780313225291 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1980, cover price $76.95

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9780722253595 | Best Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $88.00
9780404129385 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1977, cover price $41.25

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...for the creation of diverse rhythmic streams, for the composition of music that depends on its melodic, harmonic and contrapuntal interests. How infinitely more at home he is when writing for the piano! But here he is content to remain entirely conservative, and anything in the nature of novelty is indeed far to seek. As a composer for his own instrument he is relatively a classicist, for one cannot, in days when music is almost universally accepted as primarily a medium of expression, continue to reserve this category for the pre-Beethovenians, and in styling Rakhmaninof an old-fashioned romanticist, one has in mind a differentiation between the real modernist, who makes no apology for boldly attempting illustration by means of music, and the nineteenth-century romanticist of the Schumann or Chopin type who, from our point of view, is to be considered as having merely hinted, and sometimes a little faint-heartedly, at the emancipation of music and its enfranchisement as a highly expressive art. In the smaller piano pieces, of which Rakhmaninof has composed a large number, he writes in a variety of moods and styles. At times he is meditative, as in the B major Prelude (No. 11) from the series Opus 32, on occasion almost feminine in delicacy, as in the fifth item of the same set; although he rarely approaches the uncompromising' popularness' of the Polka, which forms part of the Album inaugurating the Russian Music Publishing Company's Edition, the G minor Prelude from the group of ten (Opus 23), dedicated to Siloti, is quite fairly to be described as a concession to those who prefer the lighter kind of music; examples are to be found in which there is a greater ruggedness than in Brahms, though falling short of the rather savage emotionalism of...

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9780722253090 | Best Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $98.00
9780837142852 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1917, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.

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Product Description: Written with enthusiasm and accessible prose , the Classic fM Lifelines series will become the Everyman o f musical biographies. Titles for the series have been chose n from the Classic fM''s own listener surveys of the most pop ular composers. '

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9781862050167 | Trafalgar Square, October 1, 1997, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Written with enthusiasm and accessible prose , the Classic fM Lifelines series will become the Everyman o f musical biographies.

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Product Description: Dmitri Shoshtakovich (1906-1975) is recognized as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century yet few people know that he was also an outstanding concert pianist who maintained a hectic performing schedule. In Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist Sofia Moshevich offers the first detailed examination of Shoshtakovich the pianist within the context of his life and work as a composer...read more

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9780773525818 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Dmitri Shoshtakovich (1906-1975) is recognized as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century yet few people know that he was also an outstanding concert pianist who maintained a hectic performing schedule.

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9780837121000 | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, December 1, 1969), cover price $72.95

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Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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9780837133508 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1943, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Book by Abraham, Gerald Ernest Heal

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9781406765199 | Lightning Source Inc, March 31, 2007, cover price $26.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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Product Description: Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourié explores the varied aesthetic impulses and ever-evolving personal motivations of Russian composer Arthur Lourié. A St. Petersburg native allied with the Futurist movement and profoundly sympathetic to Silver Age decadence, Lourié was swept away by the Revolution; he surfaced as a Communist commissar of music before landing in Europe and America, where his career foundered...read more
By Simon Morrison (editor)

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9780199829446, titled "Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourié" | Oxford Univ Pr, June 9, 2014, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourié explores the varied aesthetic impulses and ever-evolving personal motivations of Russian composer Arthur Lourié.

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

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9780722254134 | Best Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $88.00 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780404130497 | Reprint edition (Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1974), cover price $32.45 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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9780559651113 | Bibliolife, November 30, 2008, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9780835718646 | Univ of Rochester Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $99.00

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9780837147642 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1971, cover price $36.95

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9780866229463 | Paganiniana Pubns, February 1, 1989, cover price $19.95

Product Description: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was probably one of the most significant composers in Russia in the 19th century. Largely self taught - he trained as a naval officer - he is best known for three orchestra works: "Sheherazade", the "Spanish Capriccio" and "Russian Easter"...read more

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9780722254974 | Best Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was probably one of the most significant composers in Russia in the 19th century.
9780844300245 | Horizon House Pubs, March 1, 1983, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was probably one of the most significant composers in Russia in the 19th century.

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9780571142453 | Reprint edition (Faber & Faber, March 1, 1990), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Russian composer describes his experiences in the musical life of the late nineteenth century, his role in the development of Russian nationalism in music, and his relations with his contemporaries

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9781555530891 | Northeastern Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $32.50

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9780195181678 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 25, 2008, cover price $115.00

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9780199753482 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 25, 2010, cover price $19.95

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9780714504896 | Reissue edition (Marion Boyars, July 1, 1982), cover price $12.00

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9780714504902 | Reprint edition (Marion Boyars, May 1, 2000), cover price $14.95
9780670579563 | Penguin USA, June 1, 1971, cover price $3.95

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9780711920828 | Beekman Books Inc, June 1, 1990, cover price $27.95
9780946619320 | Seven Hills Books, September 1, 1988, cover price $24.95

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9780846430629 | Beekman Books Inc, June 1, 1990, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: A biography of Sergey Prokofiev, one of Russia'a most famous and enduring composers, whose music was not recognised in his own country until after his death.

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9780711920835 | Omnibus Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A biography of Sergey Prokofiev, one of Russia'a most famous and enduring composers, whose music was not recognised in his own country until after his death.

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9780404130510 | Reprint edition (Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1976), cover price $32.45

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Depicts the life of the Russian composer, Alexander Scriabin, and examines the influence of his mystical beliefs on his music.

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9780520043848 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 1987, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Depicts the life of the Russian composer, Alexander Scriabin, and examines the influence of his mystical beliefs on his music.

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