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Rakhmanova [Rahmanova], Marina

Pavlovna
(b Moscow, 30 May 1947). Russian musicologist. She graduated from the
Gnesin Music College and the Moscow Conservatory having specialized in the
organ, music theory and music history. From 1969 to 1987 she worked for the
journal Sovetskaya muzïka, where she directed the music history division from
1978. After taking the doctorate at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1987, she
joined the staff of the State Institute for Art History that same year, and was
later made a director. She became co-editor of the Rossiyskaya Muzïkal'naya
Gazeta in 1996 and was appointed academic secretary of the Glinka State
Museum for Musical Culture in 1997. For many years she has worked regularly
with the radio channel ‘Orfey’. The main area of her research is Russian music,
including medieval music, sacred music from various periods, 18th- and 20th-
century music, and the works of the Russian emigrés. She has contributed
major articles to Istoriya russkoy muzïki (on Rimsky-Korsakov and
Grechaninov, vols.viii–x, Moscow, 1994–7) and Russkaya khudozhestvennaya
kul'tura vtoroy polovinï XIX veka (vols.ii–iii, Moscow, 1991–6); she is also editor
of the new Tchaikovsky collected edition and has prepared volumes of
Prokofiev's film music for Ivan the Terrible and the sacred music of Rimsky-
Korsakov and V.S. Kalinnikov. Her work is characterized by a comprehensive
understanding of Russian music, and she is particularly drawn to lesser-known
Russian composers, whose works she popularizes through her activities as an
editor, writer and concert organizer.
WRITINGS
Istochniki oper Musorgskogo [The sources for Musorgsky's operas) (diss.,
Leningrad Conservatory, 1987)
‘Prorochestvo neslïkhannïkh peremen' (istoriya postanovok oper
Musorgskogo)’ [The prophecy of unheard-of changes (the performance
history of Musorgsky's operas)], SovM (1987), nos.11–12
ed.: SovM (1989), no.3. [Musorgsky issue; incl. ‘Musorgskiy i
khudozhniki’ [Musorgsky and artists], 106–26]
‘Musorgskiy v zarubezhnom mire’ [Musorgsky through foreign eyes],
Musorgskiy i XX vek (Moscow, 1990)
‘Ogromnoye i yeshchyo yedva tronutoye polye deyatel'nosti’ (o dukhovnoy
muzïke Chaykovskogo)’ [A rich and still barely touched field of activity (on
the spiritual music of Tchaikovsky)], SovM (1990), no.6, pp.67–74
‘Mikhail Kuzmin i muzïkal'naya kul'tura staroobryadchestva’ [Kuzmin and the
musical culture of the Old Believers], MAk (1992), no.3
‘Voskresheniye drevnosti (k istorii muzïkal'noy kul'turï
staroobryadchestva)’ [Bringing times of yore back to life (on the history of
the musical culture of the Old Believers)], MAk (1993), no.4
ed., with others: MAk (1994), no.2. [Rimsky-Korsakov issue; incl. ‘Dukhovnaya
muzïka’ [Sacred music, 51–63; ‘Posledniye godï’ [His last years]; ‘Iz
perepiski Rimskogo-Korsakova’ [From Rimsky-Korsakov's
correspondence]]
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimskiy-Korsakov (Moscow, 1995)
with M.M. Krasilin: Dukhovnaya sreda Rossii: pevcheskiye knigi i ikonï 17 –
nachala 20 vekov [The spiritual environment of Russia: the singers' books
and icons from the 17th to the early 20th centuries] (Moscow, 1996)
‘Dukhovnoye peniye v Russkom Zarubezh'ye’ [Spiritual singing among the
Russian emigrés], Iskusstvo XX veka: ukhodyashchaya epokha (Nizhny

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Novgorod, 1997)
‘Dukhovnoye tvorchestvo Aleksandra Grechaninova’ [The spiritual works of
Aleksandr Grechaninov], Russkoye iskusstvo mezhdu vostokom i zapadom
(Moscow, 1997)
‘Russkaya dukhovnaya muzïka’ [Russian spiritual music]
‘Sergey Dyagilev i “ėkspansiya” russkogo iskusstva’ [Serge Diaghilev and the
‘expansion’ of Russian art], Russkaya muzïka i XX vek (Moscow, 1997),
371–406 623–54
‘Sergey Prokof'yev i Christian Science’ [Prokofiev and Christian Science], Mir
iskusstva (Moscow, 1997)
ed., with S.G. Zvereva and A.A. Naumov: Sinodal'nïy khor i uchilishche
tserkovnogo peniya: vospominaniya, dnevniki, pis'ma [The Synod Choir
and the college of church singing: reminiscences, diaries, letters]
(forthcoming)
editions
ed., with L.Z. Korabel'nikova: Dukhovno-khorovïye proizvedeniya [Spiritual
and choral works], Pyotr Il'yich Chaykovskiy: Polnoye sobraniye
sochineniy, lxii (Moscow, 1991)
‘Ivan Groznïy’: rekonstruktsiya podlinnoy partiturï S.S. Prokof'yeva i zvukovogo
oformleniya fil'ma S.M. Ėyzenshteyna [‘Ivan the Terrible’: a reconstruction
of Prokofiev's authentic score and the sound track of Eisenstein's film]
(Hamburg, 1997)
Rimskiy-Korsakov: sobraniye dukhovno-muzïkal'nïkh proizvedeniy [Rimsky-
Korsakov: a collection of sacred works] (Moscow, 1998)
ed.: Viktor Kalinnikov: sobraniye dukhovno-muzïkal'nïkh proizvedeniy [Viktor
Kalinnikov: a collection of sacred works] (forthcoming)
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: the Orchestral Works of the Early 1880s, Novoye
polnoye sobraniye sochineniy, xxiii (forthcoming)
LYUDMILA KORABEL'NIKOVA

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