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Author Móricz, Klára, 1962- author.

Title In Stravinsky's orbit : responses to Modernism in Russian Paris / Klára Móricz.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series California studies in 20th-century music ; 26.
California studies in 20th-century music ; 26.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index.
Contents Double narratives, or, Dukelsky's The end of St. Petersburg -- Soviet "méchanique," or, The Bolshevik temptation -- Neoclassicism à la russe 1, or, Reclaiming the eighteenth century in Nabokov's Ode -- Neoclassicism à la russe 2, or, Stravinsky's version of Similia similibus curentur -- 1937, or, Pushkin divided -- Feast in time of plague -- Epilogue, or, Firebird to Phoenix.
Summary "The Bolsheviks' 1917 political coup caused a seismic disruption in Russian culture. Carried by the first wave of emigrants, prerevolutionary Russian culture migrated West, transforming itself as it interacted with Western cultures and clashed with exported Soviet trends. In this book, Klára Móricz explores the transnational emigrant space of Russian composers Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Dukelsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Nicolas Nabokov, and Arthur Lourié in interwar Paris. Their music reflected the conflict between a modernist narrative demanding innovation and a narrative of exile wedded to the preservation of prerevolutionary Russian culture. The Bolsheviks' and the emigrants' contrasting visions of Russia and its past collided frequently in the French capital, where the Soviets displayed their political and artistic products, providing emigrants with an irritant against which they had to measure their cultural aspirations. Russian composers in Paris also had to reckon with Stravinsky's disproportionate influence: if they succumbed to fashions dictated by their famous compatriot, they risked becoming epigones; if they kept to their old ways, they quickly became irrelevant. Although Stravinsky's neoclassicism provided a more neutral space, it was also marked by the exilic experience. The author offers this unexplored context for Stravinsky's neoclassicism, shedding new light on this infinitely elusive term"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969.
Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969.
Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.
Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.
Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978.
Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978.
Lourié, Arthur, 1892-1966.
Lourié, Arthur, 1892-1966.
Music -- France -- Paris -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
France -- Paris.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Expatriate composers -- France -- Paris.
Expatriate composers.
Composers -- Soviet Union.
Composers.
Soviet Union.
MUSIC / History & Criticism.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Roth Family foundation. Imprint in music, issuing body.
Other Form: Print version: Móricz, Klára, 1962- In Stravinsky's orbit Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520344426 (DLC) 2019044472
ISBN 9780520975521 electronic book
0520975529 electronic book
9780520344426 hardcover