Eighteenth-century Russian Music

List of Figures and Tables ix List of Music Examples xiii Preface xxi Acknowledgements xxiii Note on Abbreviations, Transliteration and Dates xxv 1 Rethinking Eighteenth-Century Russian Music 1(14) Historiography in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 2(7) The Complexity of Russian Identity 9(2) Two Capitals 11(4) 2 Pre-Petrine Legacy 15(20) Folklore 15(1) The Rise and Fall of Skomorokhi Culture 16(6) Seeking an Art-Music Tradition (Seventeenth Century) 22(1) Religious Chant 23(6) Kanty and Psalmy 29(1) Ukrainization 30(1) Instrumental Music 31(1) Music in the Theatre 32(3) 3 Toward the New Russian Idiom: Between Germans and Italians; Between Italians and Russians 35(30) Peter the Great Pro-German and Anti-Italian 35(4) Empress Anna Pro-Italian 39(7) Araja in the 1740's 46(1) Gregory Teplov and Russian Song 47(5) Kirill Razumovsky and Russian Opera 52(4) Semen Naryshkin and Russian Horn Music 56(6) Araja's Rise and Fall in the 1750's 62(3) 4 At the Court of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich 65(14) Vincenzo Manfredini at the Oranienbaum Court 68(2) Maxim Berezovsky's Early Career 70(9) 5 The 'Thaw' of the 1760's 79(30) Manfredini in the 1760's 79(2) Baldassare Galuppi 81(5) Berezovsky: Choral Work of the 1760's 86(5) Liturgy 91(10) Berezovsky Leaves for Italy 101(4) The Young Dmitry Bortniansky 105(4) 6 Lessons of the 1770's: Berezovsky and Bortniansky in Italy 109(30) Bortniansky's Missions 109(2) Berezovsky's Studies 111(8) Tommaso Traetta at the Russian Court 119(2) Bortniansky's Ordeal by Opera 121(3) The Moral of Berezovsky 124(6) Bortniansky's Redemption 130(9) 7 The City in the 1770's 139(16) Paisiello at the Russian Court 139(2) From Song to Song-Opera 141(14) 8 Bortniansky and the 1780's 155(28) Bortniansky's Return to Russia 156(4) Bortniansky's Concertos of the 1780's 160(10) Bortniansky at the Young Court 170(13) 9 The Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Salon 183(32) Foreign Virtuosi 184(11) Ivan Khandoshkin and the Rus'ian Idiom 195(4) At the Lvov House or the Temple of Rus'ian Idiom 199(7) The Eighteenth-Century Russian Idiom: Policy, Perception, Proofs 206(9) 10 Sarti in Russia 215(20) Sarti and Prince Potemkin 217(5) Cimarosa's Russian Episode 222(1) Sarti Returns to St Petersburg 223(1) Sheremetev and Sarti 224(1) Back to the Imperial Court 225(2) Russian Spiritual Compositions 227(8) 11 1790's: Muses and Cannons 235(20) The Polonaise: Polish Honour and Russian Empire 235(11) Marseillaise and Russian Monarchs 246(3) Russian Freemasonry and Music 249(6) 12 Master and Serf 255(34) At the Court of Count Sheremetev 256(8) Stepan Anikeevich Degtyarev 264(1) Degtyarev's Pseudonyms 265(3) Serf-Freelancer 268(4) Degtyarev's Choral Music: Aesthetics and Style 272(2) Early Concertos 274(4) Late Concertos 278(2) Redactions 280(9) 13 The Choral Concerto in the 1790's 289(24) Artemy Vedel 298(6) Bortniansky's 1790's Concertos 304(9) 14 Bortniansky in the Nineteenth Century 313(36) Repertoire 319(10) Public Life 329(2) Family 331(4) Bortniansky and the Nineteenth Century 335(14) Bibliography 349(16) Index 365