What Does the Composer Take Away? Composing Strategies and the World of Russian Emigration

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DOI 10.34690/264

Author Aleksey Yu. Munipov

Abstract

Elena Dubinets’ first English-language book “Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, and Returned” (2021), echoes the last of her Russian-language books “Mozart Chooses No Fatherland” (2016). In “Russian Composers Abroad,” however, interviews with characters become the source material for a large-scale musical and sociological study with analytical excursions, covering the question of national identity formation and cultural belonging in a multifaceted way. Well-researched names are deliberately left out of the work. Among the heroes of the book are both forgotten authors and composers who are successful in the West but almost unknown in Russia. The book acquires particular relevance today because the topics touched upon in it turn out to be close to many people.

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Munipov, A. Yu. “What does the composer take away? Composing strategies and the world of Russian emigration.” Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 3, 2022, pp. 214–219, doi:10.34690/264. (In Russ.)

Published 01.08.2022

Approved 22.08.2022

Submitted 26.09.2022

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