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EVENINGS IN OLD ST. PETERSBURG: THE BALAKIREV CIRCLE AND ITS ORIGINS

EVENINGS IN OLD ST. PETERSBURG: THE BALAKIREV CIRCLE AND ITS ORIGINS ROY J. GUENTHER (Washington, DC, U.S.A.) EVENINGS IN OLD ST. PETERSBURG: THE BALAKIREV CIRCLE AND ITS ORIGINS For those of us in the West, who largely take for granted ready access to information, education, and the newest developments in our professions, it is understandably difficult to appreciate the precious commodity represented simply by conversation with o n e ' s peers in a situation where such access is limited or difficult. But great, we can presume, must have been the value placed on their personal associations by the young writers, painters and mu- sicians who sought intellectual interchange, constructive criticism and moral support from each other in mid-nineteenth-century St. Petersburg. The mere mention o f Pushkin, Glinka, Musorgskii and Repin, among many others, conjures up for us today the visions and sounds o f that amazing age when Russian artistic culture was emerging from its European-based stylistic cloak and beginning to reveal its own clear voice. Abundance o f mutual influence and support o f artists for each other are certainly not traits unique to that time and place. One can readily recall other such instances o f creative cross-pollination: Florence in the 1570s, Weimar in the 1830s-1850s,Vienna http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

EVENINGS IN OLD ST. PETERSBURG: THE BALAKIREV CIRCLE AND ITS ORIGINS

GUENTHER, ROY J.
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 34 (1): 5 – Jan 1, 2000
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© 2000 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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ROY J. GUENTHER (Washington, DC, U.S.A.) EVENINGS IN OLD ST. PETERSBURG: THE BALAKIREV CIRCLE AND ITS ORIGINS For those of us in the West, who largely take for granted ready access to information, education, and the newest developments in our professions, it is understandably difficult to appreciate the precious commodity represented simply by conversation with o n e ' s peers in a situation where such access is limited or difficult. But great, we can presume, must have been the value placed on their personal associations by the young writers, painters and mu- sicians who sought intellectual interchange, constructive criticism and moral support from each other in mid-nineteenth-century St. Petersburg. The mere mention o f Pushkin, Glinka, Musorgskii and Repin, among many others, conjures up for us today the visions and sounds o f that amazing age when Russian artistic culture was emerging from its European-based stylistic cloak and beginning to reveal its own clear voice. Abundance o f mutual influence and support o f artists for each other are certainly not traits unique to that time and place. One can readily recall other such instances o f creative cross-pollination: Florence in the 1570s, Weimar in the 1830s-1850s,Vienna

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Published: Jan 1, 2000

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