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Excerpt from Tchaikovski
True Russian music is still comparatively a new feature of art, its upgrowth is of recent date, its prominence a thing of yesterday; during the generations of the classics and their romantic successors, the music of Russia, which had no past of any note, gave little promise of any future. Songs of the people there were, as there have been in every nation at every epoch of its existence, but the development of such songs, or of music embodying Russian characteristics, was as yet unconceived, un tried. The Rubinsteins, cultured and polished as was their music, were German in mode and form of thought, and it was Glinka who first expounded the national doctrine, and opened out a pathway to the fertile field of Slav melody and folk-song; and his lead was followed, and is being followed now, by such writers as Rimsky Korsakov, Glazounov, and others.
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