| Description |
xv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Composers in context
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Composers in context.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I, Russia and identity. Memory and truth : Stravinsky's childhood (1882-1901) / Catriona Kelly ; Religion, life and death in St. Petersburg / Natalia Braginskaya ; Leokadiya Kashperova and Stravinsky : the making of a concert pianist / Graham Griffiths ; Reminiscences of Rimsky-Korsakov, his family and artistic circle / Lidia Ader ; Orthodoxies and unorthodoxies : Stravinsky's spiritual journey / Ivan Moody ; Russian soul / Rowan Williams -- Part II, Stravinsky and Europe. Sergei Diaghilev and Stravinsky : from world of art to Ballets russes / John E. Bowlt ; Paris and the Belle époque / Davinia Caddy ; Paris, Art Deco and the spirit of Apollo / Jonathan Cross ; Stravinsky's Spain : fan or mirror? / Graham Griffiths ; "It is Venice that he loves" / Mauricio Dottori -- Part III, Partnerships and authorship. Stravinsky's sphere of influence : Paris and beyond / Inessa Bazayev ; Stravinsky and his literary collaborators / Maureen Carr ; Assuming co-authorship : Stravinsky and his "ghostwriters" / Valérie Dufour ; Nadia Boulanger and Stravinsky : the transition to America / Kimberly Francis ; Conversations with Craft / Anna Schmidtmann -- Part IV, Performance and performers. Challenges to realism and tradition : Stravinsky's Modernist theatre / Massimiliano Locanto ; Igor Stravinsky and ballet as Modernism / Stephanie Jordan ; Stravinsky's ear for instruments / Chris Dromey ; Towards a conductor-proof ideal / Hannah Baxter ; Pianist in the recording studio : reimagining interpretation / Daniel Barolsky ; Legacy of Stravinsky as recorded history / Per Dahl -- Part V, Aesthetics and politics. Stravinsky versus literature / Emily Frey ; Stravinsky and Greek antiquity / Katerina Levidou ; Stravinsky's response to japonisme / Mai Ikehara ; Stravinsky, Modernism and mass culture / Ross Cole ; Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky : Adorno and others / Alan Street ; Stravinsky's "problematical" political orientation during the 1920s and 1930s / Erik Levi -- Part VI, Reception and legacy. Apollonian clockwork rewound / Elmer Schönberger ; Stravinsky reception in the USSR / Philip Ewell ; Stravinsky/Craft conversations in Russian and their reception / Olga Manulkina ; Publishing Stravinsky / Nigel Simeone ; Copyright, the Stravinsky estate and the Paul Sacher Foundation / Heidy Zimmermann ; Evoking the past, inspiring the future / Lynne Rogers ; "Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all" / Daniel K.L. Chua. |
| Summary |
"Stravinsky in Context offers an alternative to chronological biography. Thirty-five short, specially commissioned essays explore the eventful life-tapestry from which Stravinsky's compositions emerged. The opening chapters draw on new research into the composer's upbringing in St Petersburg. Stravinsky's early, often traumatic family experience is examined in depth, particularly in the context of his brother Roman's death and religious sensibilities within the family. Further essays consider the composer's many years in exile at the centre of dynamic and constantly-evolving cultural environments, Stravinsky forever refining his idiom and redefining his aesthetics against a backdrop of world events and personal tragedy. The closing chapters review new material regarding Stravinsky's complicated relationship with the Soviet Union, whilst also anticipating his legacy from the varied perspectives of publishing, research and even, in the iconic example of The Rite of Spring, space exploration. The book includes previously unpublished images of the composer and his family"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
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Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. |
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Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Composers -- Biography.
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Composers -- Biography. |
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Composers. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Griffiths, Graham, 1954- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Stravinsky in context 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108381086 (DLC) 2020019654 |
| ISBN |
9781108422192 hardcover |
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1108422195 hardcover |
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9781108434720 paperback |
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110843472X paperback |
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9781108381086 electronic publication |
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9781108390262 electronic book |
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