Tag: Gennady Provatorov
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Gavriil Popov: Symphony No. 2 “Motherland” & Symphony No. 5 “Pastoral”
Most music-lovers are aware how the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky met his death at the age of just 42: put bluntly, he drank himself to death. Other composers, however, met a similar fate, and one of these was Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov. The Soviet Composers’ Union was never a teetotal organization, but Popov was certainly thirstier…
