Autobiographical memories
By: Rodion Shchedrin ; translated by Anthony Phillips
Contributors: Phillips, Anthony, 1936 December 19- translator; Shchedrin, Rodion Konstantinovich, 1932-
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Schott
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Mainz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9783254084194
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Composers; Biography
Work titles: Avtobiograficheskie zapisi
Notes: This book of memoirs by the great Russian composer Shchedrin was originally published in Russian in 2008. 30 chapters present impressions from his life, from childhood to the 21st century. With a list of compositions and index.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: My genealogical tree; title: Childhood; title: Return to Moscow; title: The choral institute; title: Conservatoire; title: The world around; title: In search of folk-music; title: Three successes; title: Cinematic myths and the death of my father; title: Maya Plisetskaya; title: Some sinners and saints; title: First opera; title: Were there musical dissidents in the former Soviet Union?; title: Establishment composers; title: Carmen suite; title: Poetoria, the Prague Spring and the Lenin Oratorio; title: Dead souls; title: Who is a composer?; title: How I found myself occupying Shostakovich's chair; title: Perestroika years; title: The tale of the twelve months; title: Lolita; title: People throw stones only at apple trees with apples on them; title: Working with Lorin Maazel; title: 11 September 2001 and Mariss Jansons; title: Instrumental concertos; title: The sealed angel in Berlin; title: Working days, high days and holidays; title: Why Munich?; title: Boyarinya Morozova; title: Post scriptum; title: List of compositions.