This publication collates contributions from the international symposium Saved From Oblivion.
Symphonic Music by Aleksandr Veprik. Together with a CD recording it intends to call back into
general consciousness the music of the Jewish composer Aleksandr Veprik who in the 1920s was
considered one of the greatest compositional hopes of the Soviet Union yet was subsequently
broken by this very state. The motivation for the project was the great emotional power of
Veprik's expressive music which immediately touches the hearts of both listeners and
performers. The contributions to this book include biographical and analytical aspects as well
as a source edition of Veprik's letters from his trip to Europe in 1927. The complete
collection is published here for the first time.
