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Symphonic Marxism: Sovietizing Pre-Revolutionary Russian Music Under Stalin (6583 words) |
 | Asafiev sets up the dialectics of the relationship by contrasting the composer; always in financial need and "exploited and possibly flmailed" by other people; with the publisher; not quite an exploiter in the "time-honoured high-culture tradition" of the West, but a paternalistic caretaker in the Moscow merchant tradition. |
| In this analysis of Chaikovsky's consciousness, Asafiev betrays that he is writing in the 1930s, at the time of the discovery of Marx's early manuscripts, by constructing the composer's alienation from his labour as the trigger for his acquiring what amounts to class consciousness. |
| ASAFIEV, Boris Vladimirovich (Igor Glebov, 1884-1949), leading composer and musicologist, from 1925 taught at the Leningrad conservatory, from 1943 in Moscow, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1948-49 president of the Composers' Union. |
| Boris Asafiev, Concerto for Guitar and Chamber orchestra (316 words) |
| oris Asafiev (1884-1949) was perhaps the most important musicologist, critic and writer in the Soviet Union during the early decades of the century. |
| Asafiev was introduced to the guitar by Andrés Segovia, during the latters 1926 tour of the Soviet Union. |
| After hearing the Spanish guitarist, Asafiev published a review of the concert which became the corner-stone of the re-emergence of the six-string guitar in Russia. |
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