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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Roberts, Peter Deane.

Modernism in Russian piano music : Skriabin, Prokofiev, and their Russian contemporaries / Peter Deane Roberts.

    p. cm. — (Russian music studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-253-34992-3

1. Piano music—Soviet Union—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Scriabin, Alexandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915. 3. Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953. I. Title. II. Series: Russian music studies (Bloomington, Ind.)

ML734.R6 1992

786.2’0947—dc20

91-32124

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