Art & Music Histories Within The School Of Arts & Sciences At Syracuse University
by This is, nonetheless, what baffled audiences, particularly in the West after he fled the Soviet Union within the 1920s, and held him again from public acceptance on a scale matching that of his good friend, Rachmaninov, whose music was far more conventionally melodic. The more I hear his music, in fact, the more I really feel that he mixed the harmonic language of mid-period Scriabin with a melodic line nearer to Mussorgsky. Listen, for example, to his Vocalise suite; it’s totally fascinating, musically fairly advanced for late Romantic music, but not in the identical class as Rachmaninov’s much more memorable …