Re: The Legacy of Microtonal Music in the 20th Century

"In 1923 Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov founded the Petrograd Society for
Quarter-Tones. He was an exponent of strict adherence toward
quarter-tones in music, as he demonstrated in his article "The Basis
of the Quarter-Tone Musical System" for the Russian publication De
Musica. In 1927 he gave the first public demonstration and concert of
quarter-tone music in Moscow. He researched quarter-tone music and
conducted an ensemble for microtonal music until 1932. he also wrote
quarter-tone compositions, some of which used the quarter-tone
harmonium and the Emiriton."

So the famous Rimsky-Korsakov worked with quarter tones? Or is this
another Rimsky-Korsakov? If it is the same, i'm surprised i've never
heard of it... just another supposedly unimportant fact music
historians are trying to shut down. /Ö

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Mats Öljare <oljare@h...>
<oljare@h...> wrote:

> So the famous Rimsky-Korsakov worked with quarter tones? Or is this
> another Rimsky-Korsakov?

the latter, georgy was nikolai's grandson

and on another note, for gene:
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