LARRY SITSKY is Head, Department of Composition, Canberra School of Music, Australia. He is the composer of many musical compositions, and is probably Australia's most commissioned composer. He has, as a pianist, issued a number of CDs of contemporary and mainstream music. As an author, he has written extensively for professional publications. He is the author of Greenwood's Busoni and the Piano (1986) and The Reproducing Piano Roll (2 vols., 1990), as well as the forthcoming Piano Compositions of Anton Rubinstein.

Preface
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Acknowledgments
Historical Background: Anatoliy V. Lunacharsky, the Cultured Commissar
The Precursors
Vladimir I. Rebikov: The Inventor of Whole-Tone Music
Aleksei V. Stanchinskiy: The Diatonic Webern
The Big Three
Nikolai A. Roslavets: The Russian Schoenberg
Aleksandr V. Mosolov: The Man of Steel
Arthur V. Lourie: The Decadent Out of Place
The Smaller Five
Leonid A. Polovinkin: The Partial Avant-Gardist
Vladimir V. Shcherbachev: Old Wine in New Vessels
Lev K. Knipper: Wind from the West
Boris N. Liatoshinski: The Passionate Slav
Vladimir M. Deshevov: The Man of the Theater
The Reluctant Avant-Gardists
Samuil E. Feinberg: The Post-Scriabin Pianist
Anatoliy N. Aleksandrov: The Post-Rachmaninovian
Boris A. Aleksandrov: Son of the Composer of the Soviet Anthem
The Jewish School
Aleksandr A. Krein: Voice in the Wilderness
Grigoriy A. Krein: Toward Assimilation
Yulian G. Krein: Precocious Cosmopolitan
Aleksandr M. Veprik: The Ukrainian Bartok and Bloch
Mikhail F. Gnessin: The Jewish Glinka
Composers in Exile
Ivan A. Vishnegradsky: Microtones
Nikolai Obukhov: Mystic Beyond Scriabin
Iosif M. Schillinger: Gershwin's Teacher
Aleksandr N. Tcherepnine: Suave Internationalist
Musicologists and Transients
Sergei V. Protopopov: The Post-Scriabin Composer
Leonid L. Sabaneev: Would-be Scientist Becomes Critic
Dmitriy M. Melkikh: Rhapsodist
Gavrill N. Popov: Contrapuntalist
Aleksei S. Zhivotov: Notorious for One Piece
Efim Golyshchev: The First Serialist?
Georgi M. Rimsky-Korsakov: Microtonist
Appendix: Further Scores for Study and Reference
Index