Russia, the vast country that stretches over most of eastern Europe and northern Asia, is home to over 185 ethnic groups and nationalities. These nationalities have individually have developed their own styles of music locally. Even the ethnic minorities, who had once populated the Russian Imperial Empire and the Soviet Union have changed the music landscape of Russia. However, the classical composers have tried to capture the essence of all Russia.
From the Amber Room age of the Russian Tsars to the harsh winters of the Soviet Union. The country and its people’s suffering, those rare moments in which there were rare glimpses of peace, and even rarer the moments of prosperity hopes and dreams have been infused into the score pages of Russian music. Russian distinctly uses the art of Exultation & Sorrow, Space and Time, Storytelling and Humor leading to an unharnessed creativity which takes the listener on a captivating adventure.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff often achieves this through the major and minor harmonies. With extensive pieces like Prince Igor, classical Russian music also attempts at capturing the vast geography of a country that takes up one-fifth of the world’s total space.
Secondly, Russians have an enormous appreciation of narrative which is also used in Russian compositions. Russia is abounded with stories that are not just animated, but also very colorful. A Russian composer, with these storytelling compositions, tell you their long story most of these works are highly ornamental and flourished, enriched by multiple ornamental notes that seem to stretch time, while some compositions which have a darkly melodic tome tells the same tale but in am more simpler way without the added