{"title": "Eighteenth-century Russian music", "covers": [1410382], "subject_places": ["Russia"], "subjects": ["History and criticism", "Music", "Music, russian", "Music, history and criticism, 18th century", "Musique", "Histoire et critique", "Genres & Styles", "Classical", "Reference"], "key": "/works/OL5832070W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1429730A"}}], "subject_times": ["18th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, Marina Ritzarev explores the development of music over the course of the eighteenth century, a period of especially intense Westernization and secularization.\" \"The book highlights the importance of previously marginalized sectors - serf culture, choral sacred culture, the contribution of foreign musicians, the significant influence of Freemasonry, the role of Ukrainian and West-European cultures and so on - as well as casting new light on the well-researched topic of Russian opera.\" \"Much new archival material is introduced, and revised biographies of the two leading eighteenth-century Russian composers, Maxim Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortniansky, are provided, as well as those of the serf composer Stepan Degtyarev and the Italian Giuseppe Sarti.\" \"The book places eighteenth-century Russian music will be of particular importance for the study of European musical cultures remote from such centers as Italy, Germany-Austria and France. Eighteenth-century Russian music is organically linked with its past and future and its contributory role in forming the Russian national identity and developing the Russian idiom is clarified.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T18:02:55.960304"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-07T12:03:33.184597"}}