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The Russian avant-garde were trend-setters in a""‘Golden Age"" of world art at the beginning of the 20th century. Today their work continues to enrich our culture through their paintings, poetry, architecture, cinema, music, and theater. The Three Apostles of Russian Music looks at three figures in the Soviet avant-garde who led modernist music in the 1920s. Mosolov, Popov, and Roslavets were popular composers who are now unfortunately forgotten. These remarkable musicians produced compositions like the sensational machine music Foundry by Mosolov. The first symphony by Popov attracted musicians in Europe and America but was banned after the premiere, while Roslavets discovered serialism before Schoenberg, opening up a new trend in modernism. These ‘apostles’ of the Russian avant-garde have had followers in Russia, Europe, and America where their influence remains today. This book is the first study in English of their work, lives, and legacy.

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Gregor Tassie' s The Three Apostles of Russian Music: The Soviet Avant-Garde is a welcome and insightful contribution to a vital but inadequately understood subject---the musical innovations and creativity in the decades immediately following the Russian Revolution and the careers of its major protagonists. Tassie integrates a vast knowledge of Russian history, politics, literature and art into his provocative, wide ranging and insightful account, built around the work and careers of Roslavets, Popov, and Mosolov, all composers who have too long been in the shadows. It is elegant, lucid and original, and will be of tremendous value to performers, scholars, and students.--Leon Botstein, President of Bard College Gregor Tassie is one of the most famous Scottish music critics, whose life is inseparably connected with cultural figures of the Soviet Union and Russia. His detailed biographies about such outstanding figures as Nikolai Myaskovsky, Kirill Kondrashin, and Yevgeny Mravinsky leave a huge impression, not only through the brightness of Gregor's language as a music critic but also as a real expert whose works are incredibly interesting and informative to read. I am sure that his new work The Three Apostles of Russian Music: The Soviet Avant-Garde will be a huge success among connoisseurs, music lovers, and critics. I wish this work huge circulation and reprints.--Alexander Sladkovsky, Director and Conductor, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra

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Gregor Tassie taught in Glasgow until 2013. He writes regularly for Musical Opinion, Classical Record Collector, Gramophone, and has worked as a consultant for BBC Radio.

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