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Anastasia Belina
A Critical Re-Evaluation of Taneyev's 'Oresteia'
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Dr. Stephen Muir and Professor Clive Brown |
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Abstract
Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915) was a huge figure in the musical life of the nineteenth-century Russia. He was a virtuoso pianist, composer, pedagogue, and the Director of the Moscow Conservatoire. Among Taneyev’s students are such names as Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Medtner, and Gliere. Taneyev and his music are actively researched in Russia, but the two aspects of such research remain neglected—his opera Oresteia and his interest in Wagner. Taneyev spent twelve years writing his one and only opera, based on a Greek tragedy by Aeschylus. My dissertation sets out to re-evaluate Taneyev as an operatic composer and re-consider Oresteia in the context of the Russian operatic scene of the nineteenth century.