RCHUMS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Tonality, Early Music, Scherzo
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2: wrote 6 symphonies (#6 pathetique) in tsarist russia. [igor stravinsky: 1882-1971 not a major symphonic composer, though a very important. In 1915 his family moved to switzerland and went on to france and then the us after the revolution in 1917: sergei prokofiev: 1891-1953, wrote 7 symphonies. The first one the classical is in a neoclassical tradition. He was mentioned in 1948 as a composer dangerous of being influenced by the west: dimitri shostakovich: 1906-1976, fully educated in communist russia after the 1917 revolution. 1936 and in 1948: he wrote 15 symphonies. His symphony #5 (1937) was, in his words, a soviet artist"s creative response to just criticism. It must have its deepest roots in the broad masses of workers. It must be understood and loved by them. Russian association of proletarian music. a. i) under stalin, art was to be direct and conventional, and based in idioms rooted in folk and popular traditions.
