Alexander Tcherepnin
Subtitle: The Saga of a Russian Emigre Composer (Russian Music Studies)
Contributors: Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin (Editor); Anna Winestein (Translator)
Edition: English Language Ed edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780253349385
Subjects: Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); European studies; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Music/Songbooks; Biography/Autobiography; Russia; Composers & Musicians - General; Ethnic Cultures - General; Individual Composer & Musician; Instruction & Study - Composition; 1899-1977; Biography; Composers; Tcherepnin, Alexander,
Description: "Ludmila Korabelnikova recounts the life and times of Alexander Tcherepnin, a prolific and often emulated composer who produced four operas, 13 ballets, four symphonies, numerous orchestral and chamber works, and more than 200 piano pieces. He was born in Russia in 1899 to a family of musicians and artists. However, Aaron Copland referred to him as "an honorary American composer" and Toru Takemitsu called him "a father figure of Japanese music." Korabelnikova focuses not only on the biographical elements of Tcherepnin's story, but also on his music and its technical innovations. She includes extended quotations by the composer himself and selective analytical commentary, based on primary sources and contemporaneous accounts."--BOOK JACKET.