Strings, February 1st, 2008
Khandoshkin's violin works get players ready for the greats
SECULAR MUSIC CAME LATE TO RUSSIA. As far as most of us are concerned, it started with the operas of Glinka in the Romantic era, but Russian instrumental music was being produced a century earlier. True, much of the music making in Russia in the 1700s was handed over to imported Italian composers and virtuosi. A very few native sons, however, were elbowing through the Italian crowd, and one of the first to lead the pack was violinist Ivan Yevstafyevich Khandoshkin.
Khandoshkin was born in a small Ukrainian village in 1747. By age 13...
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