Yavorsky, Boleslav Leopol'Dovich
(1877–1942)
BOLESLAV LEOPOL'DOVICH YAVORSKYYAVORSKY, BOLESLAV LEOPOL'DOVICHBOLESLAV LEOPOL'DOVICH YAVORSKY [* 1877-† 1942] As Russian music was beginning to incorporate a more diverse harmonic vocabulary (in the works of Skryabin, for example), Boleslav Leopol'dovich Yavorsky was developing a complex theory to account for all aspects of music from various periods and styles, including folk music. A rigorous though dogmatic thinker, Yavorsky established logical relationships among such disparate elements as…