Rodion Shchedrin 
Rodion Shchedrin [EPUB ebook] 
Autobiographical Memories

My Genealogical Tree — Childhood — Return to Moscow — The Choral Institute — Conservatoire — The World Around — In Search of Folk-Music — Three Successes — Cinematc Myths and the Death of my Father — Maya Plistskaya — Some Sinners and Saints — First Opera — Were There Musical Dissidents in the Former Soviet Union — Establishment Composers — Carmen Suite — Poetoria, the Prague Spring and the Lenin Oratorio — Dead Souls — Who is a Composer — How I Found Myself Occupying Shostakovich’s Chair — Perestroika Years — The Tale of The Twelve Months — Lolita — People Throw Stones Only at Apple Trees with Apples on Them — Working with Lorin Maazel — 11 September 2001 and Mariss Jansons — Instrumental Concertos — The Sealed Angel in Berlin — Working Days, High Days and Holidays — Why Munich — Boyarinya Morozova — Post Scriptum — List of Compositions — Index

Rodion Shchedrin was born in Moscow in 1932. He studied composition and piano at the Moscow Conservatoire and quickly made his way to international recognition in both disciplines. His ballets, symphonic works, piano concertos and chamber music compositions are regularly performed in the leading theatres and concert halls of the world. Rodion Shchedrin and his wife, the prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, today make their homes in Moscow and Munich, shuttling between the two although, as Shchedrin prepares to enter his ninth decade of life, his ceaseless travels around the globe show no sign of diminishing.