Evgeniy Mikhaylovich Levashev and His Scholarly Projects (not only Musorgsky’s Complete Works). On the Scholar’s 80th Anniversary
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The article discusses the projects of the musicologist Evgeniy Mikhaylovich Levashev, both realized and unrealized. The realized ones include the restoration of the operas The Miser and The St Peters burg Merchant Court by V. A. Pashkevich, the reconstruction of the 17th century Christmas Drama by Metropolitan Dimitriy of Rostov, the publication of the first author’s version of Musorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov, chapters in the ten-volume history of Russian music on Pashkevich, Alyab’ev, Borodin. Among his projects were the books on Borodin and The Tale of Igor’s Campaign and on the Russian provincial music theatre of the late 18th and early 19th century. Unimplemented projects include: Theatrical Performances at the Turn of the 18–19th Centuries, historical essays Kamarinskaya and Its Mythology in Russian Culture, Musical Ornament, Polymetry and Rhythmic Themes in Poetry, Music, and Dance, a thematic and bibliographical index of M. P. Musorgsky’s works. Lines from the correspondence of E. M. Levashev with A. S. Rozanov from his youth are quoted for the first time.
Author: A. V. Lebedeva-Emelina
Institution: State Institute for Art Studies
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7166889836