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The richness of the golden age of Russian literature was equalled in the performing arts of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In music and dance, creative geniuses in Russia set world standards. And like the writers of their time, they imbued their works with quintessentially Russian intensity. During the years when Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev were writing, Pyotr Tchaikovsky was composing his brooding, romantic symphonies, and a group of gifted amateurs known as the "Mighty Handful" were joining him in lifting Russian music to a new height. The composers, like the writers, drew on peasant folklore, and they filled their scores with the same spaciousness and gently rhythms that Turgenev and other writers employed to evoke the land. The musical outpouring included symphonies and operas as well as compositions that helped to make Russian ballet pre-eminent. |
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