Kabalevsky: Musical Views

Description

This collection of quotations offers musical and pedagogical insights into the thinking of Dimitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, whose life spanned most of the major events that marked twentieth-century Russian and Soviet history. In his writings we see the interrelationships between the composer, the performer, the audience and the teacher. Many of his comments provide us with a snapshot of his thinking and views on the “great world of music”.