Wladimir Barsky

Wladimir BarskyBorn in Donetsk (USSR, now Ukraine). Graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire (1977), where also completed postgraduate studies under the supervision of the eminent musicologist Yuri Kholopov (1984). Doctor of musicology (1988). Teaching counterpointin Gnessin’s Academy of music (1990-1991). Editorin- Chief of Music in the USSR magazine (1984-1991). Author of more than fifty publications on problems of harmony and modern music.

Main publications outside Russia:

1. Chromaticism. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996. 211 p.

2. The music that Boris Chaikovsky composed. In: Ex oriente... Ten Composers from the former USSR. (Studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 25). Berlin: Verlag Ernst Kuhn, 2002. P.115-130

3. Faraj Karaev: “genug” or not “genug”. In: Ex oriente...II. Nine Composers from the former USSR. (Studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 30). Berlin: Verlag Ernst Kuhn, 2003. P.161-187. Also in: Underground Music from the Former USSR. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997

4. A lyrical digression with commentary or that notorios Ekimovsky. In: Ex oriente...II. Nine Composers from the former USSR. (Studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 30). Berlin: Verlag Ernst Kuhn, 2003. P.161-187. Also in: Underground Music from the Former USSR. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997

5. Apologia of Raskatov. In: Ex oriente...III. Eight Composers from the former USSR. (studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 31). Berlin: Verlag Ernst Kuhn, 2003. P.157-181. Also in: Underground Music from the Former USSR. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997

6. Sergei Pavlenko: On the way to simplicity. In: Ex oriente...III. Eight Composers from the former USSR. (Studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 31). Berlin: Verlag Ernst Kuhn, 2003. P.183-203. Also in: Underground Music from the Former USSR. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997.

As an editor and author of prefaces last time participated in publishing of series of posthumous manuscripts from the heritage of Yuri Kholopov. Completed, edited and published a posthumous and unfinished book of Valeria Tsenova. Drama of life and Holy Twelfth: Fritz Heinrich Klein, unacknowledged genius. Moscow: Musizdat, 2008. 327 p. Recently edited and prepared for publication Edison Denisov. Confession (to the 80th anniversary). Moscow: Musizdat, 2009. 147 p.