... St. Petersburg's musical scene was rapidly evolving. Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky had died in 1869, and Aleksandr Serov in 1871. Balakirev had for the time ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Musicological Studies
2019 - Music Library Association | Notes
... nationalist genre remains especially prevalent. This article examines Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka (1856), one of the earliest examples ... the operatic trend of adapting literary works by Aleksandr Pushkin, the writer often cited as the father of Russian literature. This article illustrates how both Pushkin’s dramatic Rusalka and Dargomyzhsky’s operatic adaptation of it a generation later ...
Tópico(s): European Cultural and National Identity
2021 - University of California Press | 19th-Century Music