Художественная культура (Jun 2024)
H.F. Redlich on M.P. Musorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death: To the History of the International Music Publishing Contacts in the First Third of the 20th Century
Abstract
This article is devoted to the work of the music critic, conductor, and composer Hans Ferdinand Redlich (1903–1968) in comparing the two versions of M.P. Musorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, namely, N.A. Rimsky‐Korsakov’s creative arrangement (1882) and P.A. Lamm’s academic edition (1928). The Austrian musician’s appeal to the artwork of the Russian composer is considered in the context of the public movement of the “restoration of the authentic Musorgsky” and the international music publishing relations of the late 1920s. The article is supplemented by the publication of an archival document: a Russian translation of H.F. Redlich’s work Moussorgsky Redivivus (Musorgsky Reborn), preserved in the P.A. Lamm collection of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. The study and publication of this historical source is undertaken in connection with the ongoing work at the State Institute for Art Studies on the publication of M.P. Musorgsky’s Complete Works Academic Edition, under which it is planned to publish M.P. Musorgsky’s chamber vocal cycles as edited by N.A. Rimsky‐Korsakov.
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