Contents: List of figures and tables; List of music examples; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on abbreviations and transliteration; Rethinking eighteenth century Russian music; PrePetrine legacy; Toward the new Russian idiom: between Germans and Italians; between Italians and Russians; At the court of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich; The thaw of the 1760s; Lessons of the 1770s: Berezovsky and Bortniansky in Italy; The city in the 1770s; Bortniansky and the 1780s; The late eighteenth century Russian salon; Sarti in Russia; 1790s: muses and cannons; Master and serf; The choral concerto in the 1790s; Bortniansky in the nineteenth century; Bibliography; Index.