37
Kronstadt Uprising, 1 5n, 97
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1 29
Krylov, Ivan, 247
Meyerhold, Vsevolod Emilyevich, xxvii, xxix,
Ksenofontov, I., 212n
3-4 and n, 17, 30n, 57, 88, 97, 1 05, 109,
Kubatsky, Viktor, 1 1 3
1 1 5, 1 37, 1 56, 205, 207, 2 1 3, 230, 245-
Kurbsky, Prince Andrei Mikhailovich, 192
247; conflict with Nemirovich-Danchenko,
Kustodiev, Boris Mikhailovich, 1 6n, 17-20,
63-65; last work in theater, 1 32-1 33; pro1 10; portrait of S, xxiii, 1 6-17
ductions, 81-83; relationship with S, 77-84
Meyerhold, Zinada, see Raikh
Lamm, Pavel Alexandrovich, 121n, 230
Miaskovsky, Nikolai Yakovlevich, xxxvi, 31,
Landrin, George, 205
148; correspondence with Prokofiev, 37-38
Lasso, Orlando di, 60
Mighty Five (composers), 229n
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, xxii, 7, 24, 37, 49,
Mikhoels, Solomon Mikhailovich, 87n
1 04, 1 1 3n, 1 49, 270; as character in op
Milhaud, Darius, 42
eras, 142n; musical tastes, 94-95; "political
Mission to Moscow, film, 201
will," 23n, 80n
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, 128,
Leningrad, xx-xxi; Bolshoi Dramatic The1 47n
ater, 19; Bolshoi Theater, xxix, 36-37,
Moscow: Conservatory, 31n, 121, 1 72, 173;
1 1 1 , 1 1 4, 1 1 9, 1 28, 1 3 1 , 1 32, 1 42, 1 45, Stanislavsky Opera Theater, 1 32; Theater
259; Bright Reel Theater, 9-1 1 ; Conservaof Meyerhold, 64-65, 77-79, 81, 83, 247
tory, xxii, xxiii, 6, 20n, 28-30, 50-51 , 55-
Moscow An Theater, 19n, 64, 87, 90, 92
61, 65, 67, 69-70, 1 65-1 67, 1 69; festival of
Mosfilm, 250-251 , 255
S's music xii-xiii; Finland Station, march
Moskvin, actor, 64
to, xxii, 7; Kirov Theater, 32, 42, 95n, 228;
Mozan, Wolfgang Amadeus, xxxii, 5, 60,
Maryinsky Theater, 18, 44, 95n, 1 28, 1 29,
1 25, 1 26; Jupiter Symphony, 62
285
Mravinsky, Yevgeny Alexandrovich, xi,
Pechkovsky, Nikolai, 1 1 5-1 1 6
xxxiii-xxxiv, 22n, 183n, 266
Petersburg (Petrograd), see Leningrad
Muradeli, Vano Ilyich, 142-1 45; The Great
Petipa, Marius, 45-46
Friendship, 24n, 142- 1 45; resolution
Petri, Egon, 71
against, xxxvi, 142-144, 1 5 1 , 1 52; second
Petrov, Yevgeny (Yevgeny Petrovich Kataev),
resolution on, 1 52-1 53
see Ilf
music: composers exiled to provinces, 213,
Plutarch, 27
21 5-217; contemporary Russian attitudes'
Pogrebov, musician, 37
on, 173-177, 21 9-222; folk, see folk music;
Poland, S's background in, xxi, 34
government supervision of, 1 38-147; gyp
Popov, Gavril Nikolayevich, xxxvi,, 146n, 148
sy, 5-6, 224-225; Mighty Five (compos
Popov, Sergei, 121
ers), 229n; and national culture, 214, 216,
Poskrebyshev, Stalin's secretary, 252
21 9-222; Nepman (pop), 224n; plagiarism,
Potsdam conference, 57
172-1 75; taste of Soviet leaders, 125-1 34;
Pravda, xxix, 99, 1 5 1 , 1 85; "Balletic Falsisee also Stalin; Western, prejudice against, ty," 1 19; "Muddle Instead of Music,"
173
xxviii-xxix, 36, 65, 76n, 98, 1 1 3-1 14, 1 19;
musicians persecuted by government, 1 20-
second article against S, 1 14-1 1 5
123
Preis, Alexander Germanovich, 106. 1 1 1 ,
Mussolini, Benito, 214
205-206, 208
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, xxv, xxvi, xi,
Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeevich, xxiv, xxxii,
8, 54, 121n, 1 29, 1 30, 1 56, 1 67, 1 94, 2 1 8, xxxvi, 6, 7, 27-28, 34-38, 66, 72, 1 20n,
226-244; Biron, 229; Boris Godunov, 1 82,
121n, 1 30, 142n, 144, 1 48, 1 53, 2 1 9, 224,
1 83, 1 92, 226-227, 229-234, 240; death,
228n, 248; correspondence with Mias239; Khovanshchina, 1 10, 240; Songs and kovsky, 37-38; as formalist, 146, 1 47; Love
Dances of Death, orchestration by S, 1 08n,
for Three Oranges, 208; Scythian Suite, 27;
1 82, 235, 240; Without the Sun, 240
Semyon Kotko, 1 32-1 33
Psalms of David, 184
Nalbandian, painter, 255-256
Pshibyshevsky, Boleslav, 121-122
Narodniki, 7n
Punin, Nikolai Nikolayevich, 202, 203n
national anthem, Soviet, planned, 256-264
Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich, xx, xxiv,
nationalistic campaign, inventions made in
xxvii, 30-31 , 34, 45, 46, 66, 1 5 1 , 1 94, 201 ,
Russia, 173n
222, 232, 248
Nekrasov, Nikolai, 235
Pushkin, Natalya Nikolayevna, 40
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir Ivanovich,
1 9n, 63-65, 1 1 1 , 201
Radek, Karl Berngardovich, 80n
Nepman music, 224n
Raikh, Zinaida Nikolayevna, wife of Meyer-
New Babylon, film, 149n, 1 50-1 5 1
hold, 78-80, 85, 88-89, 207
New Economic Policy (NEP), xxiv, 224n
Red Army chorus, 23, 1 90, 259-260
Nicholas I, Tsar, 1 53, 192
Repin, Ilya Efimovich, 1 82-1 83
Nikolayev, Leonid, xxii, 5 1 , 52, 57, 58, 188
revisionism, 1 53
Novy mir, xxxix
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 1 28
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreevich, xxiii,
Oberiu Circle, xxvi
28, 34, 60, 6 1 , 63, 65, 68, 1 59, 1 60, 1 62, Oborin, Lev, 1 1 3
1 63, 1 69, 172, 216, 220, 229n, 240; Boris
Oistrakh, David, 1 1 3
Godunov edited by, 226-227, 231 , 233-
Oleinikov, Nikolai Makarovich, 128n, 266
235; hostility to Tchaikovsky, 66-67, 218;
Olesha, Yuri Karlovich, 76
Pskovitianka, 241 ; Sadko, 1 29-1 30; Tale of
oprichniki, 1 24n
the City of Kitezh, 1 1 On
Ordzhonikidze, Grigo (Sergo) Konstantino
Robeson, Paul, 198-199
vich, 24n, 102, 142-143
Rodzinski, Artur, xxviii, xxxiv
Ormandy, Eugene, xxxiv
Rolland, Romain, 1 22, 200
Ostrovsky, Alexander Nikolaevich, 83
Romm, Mikhail, 250, 251
Rostropovich, Mstislav Leopoldovich, 108n,
Palestrina, Giovanni, 60
258, 259
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, xi, 30n, 54, 87,
Rozanova, music teacher, 6
1 1 3n, 1 88, 217-2 1 8
Rubinstein, Anton, 7 1 , 238
Paul I, Tsar, 192
Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians
Pazovsky, Ari, 191
(RAPM), 1 1 2
286
Russian Association of Proletarian Writers
Shostakovich, Dmitri (Continued)
(RAPP), 1 1 2
music, 196-198; torture, 1 23-1 25; tyranny,
Russian Revolution of 1905, 8
1 34-137, 1 55-1 56; tyrants as patrons of
arts, 1 23, 1 25, 1 28; Western humanists,
Sabinsky, Cheslav, 1 10
199-205; Western journalists, 196-1 97;
Sakharov, Andrei Dmitriyevich, xi, 243n
women's movement,
.
161-162; work, 20,
Shchedrin, N. (Mikhail Evgrafovich Salty-
195
kov), 242
Works: The Bedbug, music for Maya
Schnabel, Artur, 71
kovsky's play, 3n, 82, 246-247; The Black
Schreker, composer, 63
Monk, unwritten, 223-225, 240; Bolt (bal
Schubert, Franz, 1 25
let), 42n, 85n, 1 1 1 ; Bright Stream (ballet),
Schuman, William, 1 73
1 14; The Golden Age (ballet), 1 1 1 ; Eighth
Schumann, Robert, 57, 173
Quartet, xi, xii, 1 56; Eighth Symphony,
Scriabin, Alexander Nikolaevich, 40, 45, 61-
xxxiii-xxxv, 22n, 1 36, 138-140, 1 55, 1 8 1 ,
62
197, 240; Eleventh Symphony, xi-xii,
Serebriakov, Pavel Alexeyevich, 55-56
xxxii, 8, 240; The Execution of Stepan Ra