Jos Janssen mentioned:

>>Vic Maes in his recent study on Russian Music clearly shows how
>>Stravinsky's Rite is FIRMLY ROOTED in the Russian tradition.

Steven Schwartz wrote:

>Taruskin makes Maes's point in even more detail, showing that the Russian
>tradition Stravinsky came out of owes just about everything to Liszt. ...
>the Taruskin and the Maes critiques came along as something on the order
>of revelations.

I know a book in Dutch by a Francis Maes (History of Russian Music, 1996).
He is Flemish and spent one year with Richard Taruskin as a Fullbright
Research Fellow.  His book omits some composers about which Taruskin had
not yet written and presents an unfair picture of non American writings
on Russian music.  Apparently, he was not familiar with recent German
research.

Is he the same as Vic Maes? And if not, has either of them published
anything more?

Willem Vijvers<[log in to unmask]>