The Performing Style of Alexander Scriabin. Anatole Leikin

ISBN-13: 9781138265417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 306 str.

Anatole Leikin

Opis

When Alexander Scriabin's music was performed during his lifetime, it elicited ecstatic responses from listeners. After his death, however, it steadily lost the captivating appeal it once held. The main reason for this is an enormous gap existing between the printed scores of Scriabin's music and the way the composer himself played his works. Scriabin recorded nineteen of his compositions on the Hupfeld and Welte-Mignon reproducing pianos and Anatole Leikin has used the full score transcriptions of these piano rolls to explore Scriabin's performing style.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; The music of Scriabin: then and now; Scriabin's performing style; Case studies I: the Welte rolls; Case studies II: the Phonola rolls; Some thoughts on Scriabin and romantic performing traditions; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Anatole Leikin is Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His scholarly research, published worldwide in various musicological journals and essay collections, explores such topics as Romantic performance practice; early tonality; structural and hermeneutic analysis; the music of Chopin, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, and Granados. Professor Leikin regularly performs as a solo and chamber pianist, fortepianist, and harpsichordist. He has also recorded piano works of Scriabin, Chopin, and Cope, and serves as an editor for The Complete Chopin - A New Critical Edition..