Rodion Shchedrin is regarded as one of the most important composers of Russian modernism. In his autobiographical notes, he looks back on an eventful life, offering fascinating glimpses behind the scenes of the international music scene. While doing so, Shchedrin expresses his own personal view of the political situation and life back then in the Soviet Union as well as of the effects of political-ideological repression on the artistic practice. In addition, many little anecdotes and humorous re...

• Mein Stammbaum
• Meine Kindheit
• Rückkehr nach Moskau
• Chorschule
• Studium am Koservatorium
• Die Welt um mich herum
• Folklore-Expeditionen
• Drei Erfolge
• Mythen über das Kino und Tod des Vaters
• Maija Plissezkaja
• Sünder und Heilige
• Die erste Oper
• Hat es in der Musik der ehemaligen Sowjetunion Dissidenten gegeben
• Komponisten des Establishments
• Die Carmen-Suite
• Poetorium, Prager Frühling, Lenin-Oratorium
• Die toten Seelen
• ...