With this portrait the Moscow musicologist traces the career of Rodion Shchedrin from his days as a chorister to international fame as a composer. While the main emphasis is on analysis of his works of the 1980s and 1990s, Cholopova also considers Shchedrin’s achievements as a pianist, as president of the Russian Federation of Composers, as a politician and as a human being. A picture emerges of a versatile composer who enjoys experimentation and yet who always remembers the needs of the listen...

• Vorwort
• Vorbemerkung
• Durch das Prisma der Gegenwart. Die Ästhetik Rodion Shchedrins
• Charakter ist Schicksal. Die ersten fünfzig Jahre
• Partitur, Klaviatur und die Versuchungen der Politik. Horizonte des Werks der achtziger Jahre
• Der russische Ausländer. Meridiane der neunziger Jahre
• Die Verkörperung des Erfolgs. Anstelle eines Schlussworts
• Annotationen Rodion Shchedrins zu seinen Werken für CDs und Konzertprogramme
• Die wichtigsten musika...