Talk:Aleksandr Taneyev

This page has a dismissive attitude towards its subject. The authors of both New Grove and its successor, upon which this information is apparently based, had no first hand knowledge of their subject and have repeated errors which appeared in other secondary and tertiary sources and were apparently unaware of Nicholas Slonimsky's work or the source material available at the Moscow Conservatory and Petersburg Conservatories as well as Moscow University which Per Skans made use of in his article on Alexander Taneyev's string quartets.


 * Recommendation: absent any actual discussion or dispute, one form of name should be chosen promptly, one article replaced- no merge- with a redirect to the other (with names perhaps "switched", and at most, its contents preserved in the talk page of the other, but since no defense has been made of any kind in a substantial period of time.)


 * I would agree that A. Taneyev's music - what I have heard of it, one of the string quartets and the two orchestral works on Marco Polo - deserves more and not less exposure and assuredly not dismissal, by the way (even if it is recent news that Naxos is going to record Sergei Taneyev's complete works that brings more joy subjectively). Schissel | Sound the Note! 04:50, 24 August 2006 (UTC)