ABSTRACT

For a long time the Crimean composer Alemdar Karamanov, virtually unknown to the Western musical community, has been consigned to oblivion in Russia. His compositions were neither performed nor even mentioned in the mass media. Karamanov remained an outsider in Soviet music, being alien to keeping abreast of the times and refusing to follow the conventional standards and the current fashions in music. But, as it often happens, the recluses turn out to be the bearers of some profound ideas of their time.