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Steven Schwartz wrote:
>Jos wrote:
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>>... Vic Maes in his recent study on Russian Music clearly shows how
>>Stravinsky's Rite is FIRMLY ROOTED in the Russian tradition.
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>That's because creatio ex nihilo doesn't exist. Everything comes from
>somewhere. 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.
And look at all the great Russian orchestrators: Rimsky, and those others
of that time, and Stravinsky and Shostakovich and on and on. I except
Mussorgsky for obvious reasons, and Prokofiev because he hired others to
do his orchestrating (or so it is said).
My God, I forgot to mention Tschaikovsky!!
Bill S
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