Excerpt from A History of Russian Music: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Russian School of Composers, With a Survey of Their Lives and a Description of Their Works When this history was embarked upon the British public had hitherto manifested but a slight interest in Russian music, and the output of modern Russian composers was regarded as a bypath remote from the great main road of the art. In the comparatively short interval since the commencement of this work (at the close of 1912) a remarkable change has taken place and there is now to be observed a widespread and ever increasing curiosity in regard to Russian music of all kinds - a spirit of inquiry not confined to the public of the European mainland but which happily Is as keen in Great Britain as anywhere. Music-lovers have apparently resolved to make amends for their long neglect of the Russian school by taking every opportunity of performing or listening to Slavonic music, and at the same time by seeking all the available knowledge in respect of those masters whose names are linked with the glories of both the Moscow and the St. Petersburg schools of composition. But while the demand for information has become more and more insistent the supply has remained surprisingly meagre and fitful. From time to time the newspapers have devoted space to articles treating of individual Russian composers or to a study of some particular composition, but no one volume has as yet been dedicated to the purpose of giving a connected account of the rise and progress of the Russian school of musicians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.