Pauline Fairclough

Senior Lecturer in Music

Contact details

• Telephone: (0117) 331 4038
• Email: pauline.fairclough@bristol.ac.uk

Background

I received my PhD from the University of Manchester in 2002. My research field is Russian and Soviet music history, and I have taught in the music department at Bristol since 2004. My current research project (AHRC-funded) is on Soviet concert repertoire and the Soviet reception of Western classical music.

Together with Olga Digonskaya, I chair the International Musicological Society study group 'Shostakovich and his Epoch: Contemporaries, Cultures and the State'. Future meetings of the group will take place in Petrozavodsk (2011), Rome (2012) and Hanover (2013). For further details, see http://www.ims-online.ch/studyGroupDetails.aspx?id=9

Main areas of teaching:

• Music history (Shostakovich, Stravinsky, 19th and 20th-century music, Russian opera, Soviet Music, Russian and East European music)
• Aesthetics of music (especially 20th century)
• Musicology (postgraduate)

Research students

Louise Wiggins: Communism and British composers

Conferences

Past conferences:

'Russian and Soviet Music: Reappraisal and Rediscovery' with Patrick Zuk, Music Department, University of Durham, 11-14 July 2011. http://www.dur.ac.uk/music/russianmusicconference2011/

'Shostakovich 2006: International Centenary Conference' http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/shostakovich

 '1948 and all that: Music, Politics and Power in the Soviet Union' with Marina Frolova-Walker, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 2009: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/962

Co-founder and convenor of the BASEES Russian and East European Music study group (REEM) with Rosamund Bartlett from 2006 until 2008. Their conference programmes can be viewed at http://www.basees.org.uk/sgreem.shtml

 'Twentieth-century Music and Politics', Department of Music, University of Bristol, 14-16 April 2010 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/music_politics

Major publications

Books

• A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. Ashgate, 2006.
• The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich (jointly edited with David Fanning), Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Shostakovich Studies 2. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in memory of Neil Edmunds, Ashgate, forthcoming for 2012.

Articles

Refereed Journals:

• 'The Old Shostakovich: Reception in the British Press', Music and Letters, vol. 88/2 (2007), pp. 266-298.
• Review-article 'Shostakovich: Facts, Fantasies and Fictions'. Music and Letters vol. 86/3 (2005), pp. 452-460.
• 'The Perestroyka of Soviet Symphonism: Shostakovich in 1935.' Music and Letters vol. 83/2 (2002), pp. 259-273.
• 'Mahler Reconstructed: Sollertinsky and the Soviet Symphony.' The Musical Quarterly, vol. 85/2 (2001), pp. 367-390.

Chapters in Edited Books/Encyclopedias (select list):

• 'Dmitri Shostakovich' in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music, ed. Bruce Gustafson, online: Oxford University Press, 2011.
•  ‘Chostakovitch et Staline. Une relationship particulière?’, ‘Lénine, Staline et la Musique. Paris, Cité de la musique, 2010, pp. 151-162.
• 'Shostakovich and Dolmatovskiy: a last memoir' in Fairclough, ed., Shostakovich Studies 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 249-62.
• 'Slava! The "Official" Works'  in Fairclough and Fanning, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 259-282.
• ‘Narrative Strategies in Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony’ in Stefan Weiss and Melanie Unseld, eds., Ligaturen: Der Komponist als Erzähler Narrativität in Dmitri Schostakowitschs Instrumentalmusik, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2008, pp. 147-165.
• 'The Old Shostakovich: A Short History of his British Reception, 1930-1990' in Rosanna Gianquinta, ed., D. D. Sostakovic tra musica, letteratura e cinema. Florence: Leo Olschki, 2007.
• 'Sollertinsky and Dialogical Symphonism', in David Shepherd, Craig Brandist, Galin Tihanov, eds, In the Master’s Absence: The Unknown Bakhtin Circle. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 167-185.

Chapters forthcoming:

• '"Symphonies of the Free Spirit": The Austro-German Symphony in Russia' in Julian Horton, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony., Cambridge University Press.
• 'Classics for the Masses: Western art music in workers' clubs in early Soviet Russia' in Pauline Fairclough, ed., Music and Politics in twentieth-century Europe: Essays in memory of Neil Edmunds, Ashgate.
• '"One should not sing of heaven and angels": Western sacred music in Soviet Russia' in Patricia Hall, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship', Oxford University Press.
• 'Wagner Reception in Stalinist Russia' in Luca Sala, ed., The Legacy of Richard Wagner, Brepols.

Academic reviews:

• Russian Review, forthcoming. Olga Haldey, Mamontov’s Private Opera: The Search for Modernism in Russian Theater. Russian Music Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
• Music and Letters, 92/2 (2011), 310-11. Philip Bullock, Rosa Newmarch and Russian Music in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century England, RMA Monographs, 2009.
• Canadian Slavonic Papers, Volume 52/1-2 (March-June) 2010 p. 217. Mary S. Woodside, ed., The Russian Life of R.-Aloys Mooser, Music Critic to the Tsars. Memoirs and Selected Writings. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
• Notes, 66/3, 2010, pp. 561-3. Peter Schmelz, Such freedom, if only musical. Unofficial Soviet music during the thaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
• Music and Letters, 90/4 (2009), pp. 719-22, Simon Morrison, The people's artist : Prokofiev's Soviet years. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Music and Letters, 90/4 (2009), pp. 719-22, Simon Morrison, ed, Prokofiev and his World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
• Music and Letters, 90/4 (2009), pp. 714-16. Sergey Prokofiev, transl. Anthony Phillips, Diaries 1915-1922. Behind the Mask. London: Faber, 2008.
• The Russian Review, vol. 68, no. 2 (2009), p. 329, Michael Mishra, A Shostakovich Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2008.
• Slavonica, in press. Michael Kurtz, Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography. Indiana University Press, 2007.
• Slavonica, vol. 14/2 (2008), pp. 149-150. Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Music Divided: Bartok's Legacy in Cold War Culture, University of California Press, 2007; and Rachel Beckles Willson, Ligeti, Kurtag and Hungarian Music During the Cold War, CUP, 2007.
• Music and Letters, 90/1 (2009), pp. 126-129. Marina Frolova-Walker, Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.
• Music and Letters, 89/3 (2008), pp. 448-450, Kiril Tomoff, Creative Union. The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2006.
• Music and Letters, 89/2 (2008), pp. 279-282,  Sergey Prokofiev, transl. Anthony Phillips, Diaries 1907-1914. Prodigious Youth. London, Faber and Faber, 2006.
• Eighteenth Century Music vol. 4/2 (2007), pp. 312-314,  Marina Ritsarev, Eighteenth Century Russian Music, Ashgate, 2006.
• Music and Letters, vol. 87/4 (2006), pp. 647-651, Boris Gasparov, Five Operas and a Symphony. (Yale, 2006).
• Modern Languages Review, 102/1 (2007), pp. 303-4: John Riley, Shostakovich: A Life in Film. (I.B. Tauris, 2004).
• Slavonic and East European Review, 83/2, (2005), pp. 334-336: Neil Edmunds, ed., Soviet Music and Society Under Lenin and Stalin (London and New York, 2004).
• Music and Letters (2004), Vol. 85 No. 3, pp. 486-489: David Nice, Prokofiev: A Biography (New Haven and London: 2003).
• Slavonica (2003), 9/2, pp. 137-138: Simon Morrison, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement (Berkeley: 2002).
• Slavonica (2002), 8/1, pp.110-112: Rosamund Bartlett, ed., Shostakovich in Context (Oxford: 2000).
• Slavonic and East European Review, (2002), 80/1, pp. 134-135: Neil Edmunds, The Soviet Proletarian Music Movement (Oxford: 2000).
• Slavonica (2000), 6/2, pp.139-141: Timothy L. Jackson, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Cambridge: 1999).