2007 Reports

Through the Lens of Music: An Approach to Russian Cultural History

Gasparov, Boris

When in the 1960s I studied musicology at the Gnesin Institute in Moscow, concurrently with receiving a doctorate in Slavic linguistics, I did not feel particularly involved with Russian music. The musical section of my mind was almost exclusively occupied by the Germans—from Bach and the Vienna classics, to Wagner and Mahler.