Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
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Availability:In StockContributor:Pauline FaircloughSeries:Oxford KeynotesPublish date:9/17/2025Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197534946ISBN-10:197534945UPC:9780197534946Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Individual Composer & Musician, RussiaBook Topic:OperaSize:7.90 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCBXADR42Q
Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Shostakovich's lurid opera of sex, violence, and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, is famous for being banned by personal decree of Joseph Stalin in 1936. Dramatically revived by Shostakovich's close friend, the cellist and Soviet émigré Mstislav Rostropovich in 1979, Lady Macbeth is now an international hit. In the first-ever study of this beloved but still-controversial opera, Pauline...
Series: Oxford Keynotes
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197534946ISBN-10:197534945UPC:9780197534946Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Individual Composer & Musician, RussiaBook Topic:OperaSize:7.90 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCBXADR42Q
Pauline Fairclough is Professor of Music at the University of Bristol, and a specialist in Soviet musical culture, particularly the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Her biography of Shostakovich was published in 2019 and her study of Western classical music's appropriation in the Soviet Union, Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin (2016) was co-winner of the...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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