The Stage Performance Project of B. V. Asafyev’s Orchestral Score for M. P. Mussorgsky’s Opera Khovanshchina

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10.2991/assehr.k.200907.058How to use a DOI?

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Modest Mussorgsky, Boris Asafyev, Pavel Lamm, Khovanshchina, Russian opera

Abstract

This article is devoted to the history of an unrealized stage performance of B. V. Asafyev’s orchestral score for M. P. Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, and is based on archival documents, stored in The Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, The Russian National Museum of Music, The St. Petersburg Central State Archive of Literature and Art and The Museum of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, most of which have introduced into scholarly discourse for the first time. The circumstances under which the opera was planned to be staged in The State Academic Theatre of Opera And Ballet in Leningrad (today – The Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg) have been studied. The fragments from the reports of the Artistic Council of Opera at The State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet meetings, the Correspondence between B. V. Asafyev and P. A. Lamm, the manuscript “P. A. Lamm. A biography” by O. P. Lamm and other unpublished archival documents are cited. The author comes to the conclusion that most attempts to perform Khovanshchina were hindered by the political ideological constraints of the 1930s, and the existing supposition that Asafyev’s orchestral score was an artistic failure doesn’t find clear affirmation, neither in the historical documents, nor in the existing manuscript of the orchestral score.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Vasilisa Aleksandrova
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