Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 1998-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521563659
This book explores the technical and aesthetic legacy of Igor Stravinsky.
Author : Pieter C. van den Toorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107021006
A fresh look at Stravinsky's musical style, from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles.
Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9782881242953
Studie over het werk van de Russische componist (1882-1971).
Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2003-07-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521663779
Stravinsky's work spanned the major part of the twentieth century and engaged with nearly all its principal compositional developments. This Companion reflects the breadth of Stravinsky's achievement and influence in essays by leading international scholars on a wide range of topics. It is divided into three parts dealing with the contexts within which Stravinsky worked (Russian, modernist and compositional), with his key compositions (Russian, neoclassical and serial), and with the reception of his ideas (through performance, analysis and criticism). The volume concludes with an interview with the leading Dutch composer Louis Andriessen and a major re-evaluation of 'Stravinsky and Us' by Richard Taruskin.
Author : Graham Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108422192
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 childhood in St. Petersburg. Stravinsky's early, often traumatic upbringing is examined in depth, particularly in the context of his brother Roman's death, and religious sensibilities within the family. Further essays consider Stravinsky's years in exile at the centre of dynamic and ever-evolving cultural environments, the composer constantly refining his idiom and re-defining 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.
Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780235402
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) was perhaps the twentieth century’s most celebrated composer, a leading light of modernism and a restlessly creative artist. This new entry in the Critical Lives series traces the story of Stravinsky’s life and work, setting him in the context of the turbulent times in which he lived. Born in Russia, Stravinsky spent most of his life in exile—and while his work was deliberately cosmopolitan, the pain of estrangement nonetheless left its mark on the man and his work, distinguishable in an ever-present sense of loss. Jonathan Cross shows how that work emerged over the course of decades spent in Paris, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, in an artistic circle that included Joyce, Picasso, and Proust and that culminated in Stravinsky being celebrated by both the White House and the Kremlin as one of the great artistic forces of the era. Approachable and absorbing, Cross’s biography enables us to see Stravinsky’s life and artistic achievement in a new light, understanding how his work both reflected and shaped his times.
Author : Charles M. Joseph
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Composers
ISBN :
This text reveals Stravinsky's two sides - the public persona preoccupied with his own image, and the private composer, whose views were often purposely suppressed.
Author : Arnold Whittall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521016681
In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully between the cultural and the technical, the general and the particular, to explore the various contexts and critical perspectives which illuminate certain works by these composers. Considering the extent to which place and nationality contribute to the definition of musical character, he investigates the relevance of such images as mirroring and symmetry, the function of genre and the way types of identity may be suggested by such labels as classical, modernist, secular, sacred radical, traditional. These categories are considered as flexible and interactive and they generate a wide-ranging series of narratives delineating some of the most fundamental forces which affected composers and their works within the complex and challenging world of the twentieth century.
Author : Graham Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521191785
An unprecedented exploration of Stravinsky's use of the piano as the genesis of all his music - Russian, neoclassical and serial.
Author : Louis Andriessen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9053568565
The one book about Stravinsky Stravinsky would have liked. Richard Taruskin.
