Druskin M.S. French Music of the Second Half of the 19th Century (Frantsuzskaya muzyka vtoroy poloviny XIX veka), 1938. In Russian

Друскин М.С. (подбор материалов, вступ. ст. и ред.)
Французская музыка второй половины XIX века. Сборник переводных работ Ж. Тьерсо, Ж. Комбарье, Э. Истеля, Ш. Кёхлина и Ж. Продомма.
Москва: Искусство, 1938.
251 с., иллюстр., ноты; твердый издательский переплет. Тираж 3000 экз.

Druskin M.S. (selection of materials, introduction and editor)
French Music of the Second Half of the 19th Century. Collection of translated works by J. Tiersot, J. Combarieu, E. Istel, Ch. Koechlin and J. Prod'homme.
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1938.
251 pp., illustrations, musical examples; publisher’s hardcover. Print run 3,000 copies.

This 1938 collection, compiled and introduced by Mikhail Semenovich Druskin (1905–1991), a leading Soviet musicologist, pianist, and professor at the Leningrad Conservatory, gathers key translated essays by prominent French music historians and critics on the vibrant period of French music from the 1850s to the 1890s. The volume features works by Julien Tiersot (on half a century of French music and Bizet’s Spanish influences), Jules Combarieu, Edgar Istel, Charles Koechlin, and Jacques Prod’homme, covering composers such as Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Fauré, Massenet, and the rise of César Franck’s school, the revival of national traditions post-1870, and the transition toward impressionism. With musical notations, illustrations, and Druskin’s introductory article providing a Soviet-era Marxist-informed contextual frame, the book served as an important resource for Soviet musicians and scholars studying Western European music history amid the emphasis on realism and national schools. Published by the prestigious Iskusstvo publishing house in a modest run of 3,000 copies, this hardcover edition with notes and images is a scarce and valuable item for collectors of 1930s Soviet musicology, French Romantic and post-Romantic music studies, history of music criticism, Leningrad Conservatory publications, and rare translated anthologies on 19th-century European music.