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"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 Pet...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: |
2022. ©2021 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
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Composers in context
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"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 The book includes previously unpublished images of the composer and his family"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 352 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108434720 110843472X 9781108422192 1108422195 |
| Index Number: | ML410 |
| CLC: | K837.125.76 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.76/S912-3 |
| Contents: |
Russia and identity. Memory and truth : Stravinsky's childhood (1882-1901) / Religion, life and death in St. Petersburg / Leokadiya Kashperova and Stravinsky : the making of a concert pianist / Reminiscences of Rimsky-Korsakov, his family and artistic circle / Orthodoxies and unorthodoxies : Stravinsky's spiritual journey / The Russian soul / Stravinsky and Europe. Sergei Diaghilev and Stravinsky : from world of art to Ballets russes / Paris and the Belle époque / Paris, Art Deco and the spirit of Apollo / Stravinsky's Spain : fan or mirror? / "It is Venice that he loves" / Partnerships and authorship. Stravinsky's sphere of influence : Paris and beyond / Stravinsky and his literary collaborators / Assuming co-authorship : Stravinsky and his "ghostwriters" / Nadia Boulanger and Stravinsky : the transition to America / Conversations with Craft / Performance and performers. Challenges to realism and tradition : Stravinsky's Modernist theatre / Igor Stravinsky and ballet as Modernism / Stravinsky's ear for instruments / Towards a conductor-proof ideal / The pianist in the recording studio : reimagining interpretation / The legacy of Stravinsky as recorded history / Aesthetics and politics. Stravinsky versus literature / Stravinsky and Greek antiquity / Stravinsky's response to japonisme / Stravinsky, Modernism and mass culture / Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky : Adorno and others / Stravinsky's "problemat |