Question: To what extent did the composers of symphonies in the Soviet Union manage to comply with the strictures of state control of music whilst retaining a degree of creative individuality?
Answer: Here, Comrade Khrennikov, Chairman of USSR Composers' Union delivers a message to his audience, embodying the ideals and functions to which he demands the music of the Soviet Union must adhere. The state clearly relished the notion that music could be utilised to consolidate and enforce a national solidarity that would that would embrace the national doctrine of social realism....(short extract)
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- Subject: Music
- Course: Music
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 70%
- Words: 2530
- Date submitted: August 04, 2009
- Date written: March, 2003
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 2484
