MICROTONAL STORM AND STRESS: GEORGY RIMSKY-KORSAKOV AND QUARTER-TONE MUSIC IN 1920S SOVIET RUSSIA

Abstract

‘Passed by the political censor’ – Commissar Lunacharsky The new Russian generation of composers in 1920s Russia is widely known as the ‘musical avant-garde’. Maximilian Shteinberg, the professor of the Petrograd-Leningrad Conservatoire, who studied under Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, called his pupils more simply: ‘musical lefties’. The older generation tried to define this new trend that was evolving as the younger generation' explorations in the fields of musical systems, sounds, subjects, etc. Among the radical musical events in 1920s Soviet Russia, the quarter-tone system of temperament takes first place.

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