Boris Asaf'ev and the Soviet Musicology - E-thesis

Lunačarskij Anatolij V. (1875–1933), art critic, journalist, amateur musician, political functionary
and commissar of Education. Head of cultural policy during (1917–1929) when it was still relatively free
and pluralistic. In his own words “Intelligent among bolševists and a bolševist among the intelligents.”
Lur’e, Arthur Sergejevič (Arthur Oscar Vincent Lourié) (1891−1966) compositor, pianist and critic
who was very active in the revolutionary activities and belonged to the “leftist blok” of artists who
wanted to co-operate with the Bolševiks. Director of MUZO in 1918−1920. As a composer he was
experimental and composed non-tonal music. His “ultra-modernists’’ views were soon opposed and he
was replaced in 1921 in Muzo by the more moderate former Proletkult member Boris Krasin. Lur'e left
the Soviet Union for good in 1922 settling down in Paris. Since 1940 dwelled in New York. (See Schwaz
1983, pp. 25–26; Krusanov 2003, pp. 7–29; Ferenc 2004, pp. 9–10.)
Majakovskij, Vladimir (1893–1930) Russian Futurist poet.
Malevič, Kasimir (1879–1935) Russian modernist painter.
Mallarmé, Stéphane (1842–1898) French Symbolist poet.
Marinetti Filippo (1876–1944) Italian poet, novelist and critic. He was a founder of Futurism (1909),
and an eager advocate of Fascism.
Marx, Carl (1818–1883) German-born philosopher, economist and social critic.
Merežkovskij, Dmitrij (1866–1941) Russian writer.
Milhaud, Darius (1892–1974) French composer. After a short career in diplomace devoted to
composition after the first world war. Since 1940 lived in California, USA.
Mjaskovski, Nikolaj (1881–1950) Russian/Soviet composer.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–1791) Austrian composer.
Muradeli, Vano (1908–1970) Soviet (Armenian)composer. He studies in the Tbilisi Conservatory. He
composed numerous songs and revolutionary hymns, and in the years of the second world war strongly
supported with his works the Soviet Fatherland. He was twice granted the Stalin prize.
Musorgskij, Modest (1839–1881) one of the most well known Russian composer. Belonged to the
Balakirev circle.
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900) German philosopher. Instead of Christian morality, he offered the
Übermensch who lives above the slave moral. Nietzsche represented individualism, but his philosophy
also includes elements of psychologism.
Nižinskij, Vaclav (1889–1950) ballet dancer and ballet master in the Marinskij Theatre. In 1909 he
danced together with Anna Pavlova in the Marinskij Theatre a ballet number divertissement “Babočka” to
Asaf’ev’s music.
Ol'khovskij Aleksej Russian musicologist and a pupil of Boris Asaf’ev.
Orlova, Elena Mihajlovna (1908–1985) Soviet musicologist and a teacher at the Moscow and
Leningrad Conservatory who remarkably contributed the study on Boris Asaf’ev.
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