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Music for the world

ComedyComposersComposers RussiaComposers Russia (Federation)Composers Soviet UnionCompositeurs RussieCompositeurs URSSDocumentaryDramaFilmed performancesMusicMusic Russia (Federation) History and criticismMusic Soviet Union History and criticismMusique Russie Histoire et critiqueMusique URSS Histoire et critiqueSpectacles filmés

Directed by: Em Li, Sergei Rachmaninoff

Overview

Discusses the dynamic and turbulent turn of the century musical era in Russia, with its virtuoso performers like Scriabin and Heifetz, its world-class composers such as Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky living abroad showing that Russian music had entered the Western world on its own terms

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