The three great Soviet composers and Mstislav Rostropovich : talent, music and politics in the Soviet Union : a thesis submitted to Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Musical Arts in Violoncello Performance, New Zealand School of Music

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The three great Soviet composers and Mstislav Rostropovich : talent, music and politics in the Soviet Union : a thesis submitted to Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Musical Arts in Violoncello Performance, New Zealand School of Music

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Mstislav Rostropovich, the most famous cellist of the second half of the twentieth century, had a close relationship with Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, and Mieczyslaw Weinberg. These three composers are hailed by some as the three greatest Soviet composers of the twentieth century,1 although in New Zealand and much of Western society little of Weinberg's music has been played. They lived under the reign of Joseph Stalin, and were greatly restricted in what they could compose. Whilst ...

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Thesis

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Masters

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2014

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Gijsbers, Lucy

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/7441

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Mstislav Rostropovich / Mieczyslaw Weinberg / Moiseĭ Vaĭnberg / Dmitri Shostakovich / Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Music / Music / Composers / Cellists / Soviet Union / 20th century

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