Eighteenth-century Russian Music - Marina Ritzarev - Google Books

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Little is known outside of Russia about the nation's musical heritage prior to the nineteenth century. Western scholarship has tended to the view that the history of Russian music did not begin until the end of the eighteenth century. Marina…