Marina G. Raku

Graduated from Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad State Conservatory as a musicologist. Doctor of Art History, Leading Research Fellow at the Music History Department of the State Institute of Arts Studies (SIAS, Moscow); executive scien­tific editor of “New Collected Works by D. Sho­stakovich” in 150 volumes (DSCH, Mos­cow); edi­tor of the encyclopedia “Tchaikovsky”; editor of the online magazine “Iskusstvo muzyki. Teoriya i isto­riya”; manager of the Music Department of “Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre.” Author of mono­graphs “Vagner. Putevoditel’ ” [Wagner. A Guide] (Moscow, 2007), “Muzikal’naya klassi­ka v mifotvorchestve sovetskoy epokhi” [“The Clas­­sical Music in the Mythology of the Soviet Age”] (Moscow, 2014; award “Book of the Year” of the magazine “Muzykal’noye obozrenye” [“The Musical Revue”]) and about 200 scien­ti­fic articles published in journals, proceedings, encyclopedias in Russia, Germany, USA, Great Bri­­tain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland.