On Russian Music

Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin''s publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between. Some of these pieces, like the ones on Chaikovsky''s alleged suicide and on the interpretation of Shostak...