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The Music of Roman Ledenev

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Gerard McBurney
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Gradually the picture of Russian music in our century begins to fill out. The modernists of 70 or 80 years ago like Mossolov and Roslavets are beginning to make the nervous transition from text-book to performance. The constant revaluation of Shostakovich and Stravinsky makes for a couple of flourishing industries. And some living composers like Schnittke and Gubaidulina have produced works which seem almost to have been accepted as part of the repertoire

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 177 , June 1991 , pp. 24 - 31
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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1 The name Ledenev is pronounced, like Gorbachev, with a strongly stressed γο sound on the last syllable – i.e. Ledenγοv.

2 It is interesting, in the light of later developments, to note what Ledenev's contemporaries made of the same task: Schnittke and Denisov also wrote oratorios, Nagasaki and Siberian Earth, respectively. Gubaidulina contented herself with a short symphony in E major.

3 Quoted in Gerlach, Hannelore: Fünfzig sowjetische Kamponisten (Edition Peters, Leipzig/Dresden 1984)Google Scholar.