William Strother ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Steven Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Jos wrote:
>>
>>>... Vic Maes in his recent study on Russian Music clearly shows how
>>>Stravinsky's Rite is FIRMLY ROOTED in the Russian tradition.
>>
>>Taruskin makes Maes's point in even more detail, showing that the Russian
>>tradition Stravinsky came out of owes just about everything to Liszt.
>
>I would have said Berlioz, rather than Liszt.  Berlioz spent much time
>in Russia, and I believe it was from his influence that so many Russian
>composers were great orchestrators.  And, of course, Berlioz was a major
>influence on Liszt too, come to think of it.  He wrote his Treatise on
>Orchestration, which Rimsky later used as a basis for his own writing.

All of this is doubtelss fascinating, but 'm surprised that nobody has
mentioned the Russian Piano School, which owes much (if not everything)
to Adolph von Henselt.

Deryk Barker
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