Los músicos de Stalin

This book deals with the music written by the most significant Russian composers in the Russian area from the last years of tsarism to that composed after the fall of the Soviet Union, with special emphasis on the masters who, in one way or another, from inside and outside, they worked during the years of Stalin's dictatorship. A review from Glinka to Tchaikovsky; from Rimsky-Korsakov to Mussorgsky; from Rachmaninov to Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and their heirs. It defends the thesis that those who worked in the years of steel were the result of a polyhedral process that starts with a colorful and powerful nationalist movement until it reaches a vanguard that is only sometimes capable of expressing itself autonomously, due to the permanent media coverage of their suffocating political dependency. Indirectly, therefore, it speaks of the relationship between the spirit of the Russian and its inexhaustible and magnificent inventiveness. The author makes every effort to clarify this scenario, trying to separate the chaff, which is a lot, from a wheat that could grow thanks to the enormous talent of a few composers who develop their art immersed in the immense official mediocrity. And it also exposes the necessary data to find explanations for the subsequent drift that leads to the musical drought produced in the Russian Federation from the very moment of the fall of the Soviet empire. The point of no return of this fateful evolution is a current state of socio-politics in which it is difficult to stop, but which is embodied in a bloody and lethal mix between (in) culture, violence, religious irrationality and unrepentant imperialism.