A Creative Spring – Russia and France, 1882-1934
General:
Name: A Creative Spring – Russia and France, 1882-1934
Format: epub
Size: 24.48 MB
Book:
Title: Stravinsky
Author: Stephen Walsh
Language: English
Year: 1999
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Music, Nonfiction
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780679414841
Total pages: 720
Description:
Widely regarded the greatest composer of the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky was central to the development of modernism in art. Deeply influential and wonderfully productive, he is remembered for dozens of masterworks, from The Firebird and The Rite of Spring to The Rake’s Progress, but no dependable biography of him exists. Previous studies have relied too heavily on his own unreliable memoirs and conversations, and until now no biographer has possessed both the musical knowledge to evaluate his art and the linguistic proficiency needed to explore the documentary background of his life-a life whose span extended from tsarist Russia to Switzerland, France, and ultimately the United States.
In this revealing volume, the first of two, Stephen Walsh follows Stravinsky from his birth in 1882 to 1934. He traces the composer’s early Russian years in new and fascinating detail, laying bare the complicated relationships within his family and showing how…
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