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"In years to come I fully expect this set to become a collector's item of fabled note ...Get it now." -- Rob Barnett, MusicWeb-International.com Futurism in music was a movement that produced a quantity of programmatic writing and lasted into the 1940s. A provocative, avant-garde movement, it turned decisively against bourgeois notions of music and broke uncompromisingly with tradition. Even though the works of Mikhail Gnesin (1883-1957) are deeply imbued with traditional Russian musical language, and even though he bowed relatively early to official Soviet demands, he still must be seen as a representative of the Jewish branch of Russian composers. Gnesin finished his musical education under the tutelage of Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov in St. Petersburg. His most lasting influence as a composition teacher was made during his years on the faculty of the Conservatory in Moscow that bears his family name.