Stravinsky

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Stravinsky's work, from the Sacre du Printemps to the Requiem Canticles, is admired by music lovers everywhere. But his art remains perplexing. No other modern composer has used such clear language, yet no other composer has aroused such conflicting passions, such violently opposed interpretations, or has gone through so many musical metamorphoses. His work strikes alliances with every epoch, and yet it stands alone in twentieth-century music: solitary, provocative, and pro teán. It is an astounding achievement, and in this remarkable critical biography André Boucourechliev takes us chronologically through every composition, analysing the less familiar pieces as well as the famous masterpieces, challenging many widely held beliefs about Stravinsky's music and discussing each work in its relation to the whole. He covers Stravinsky's entire career: his early life in Russia; his years in Francé; the coming of war and his escape to America; his marriages; his passions and his... Tovább

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Stravinsky's work, from the Sacre du Printemps to the Requiem Canticles, is admired by music lovers everywhere. But his art remains perplexing. No other modern composer has used such clear language, yet no other composer has aroused such conflicting passions, such violently opposed interpretations, or has gone through so many musical metamorphoses. His work strikes alliances with every epoch, and yet it stands alone in twentieth-century music: solitary, provocative, and pro teán. It is an astounding achievement, and in this remarkable critical biography André Boucourechliev takes us chronologically through every composition, analysing the less familiar pieces as well as the famous masterpieces, challenging many widely held beliefs about Stravinsky's music and discussing each work in its relation to the whole. He covers Stravinsky's entire career: his early life in Russia; his years in Francé; the coming of war and his escape to America; his marriages; his passions and his prejudices. Many first-person accounts throughout the book provide rare glimpses of Stravinsky - in his friendships with T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Nabokov, for example, and in his collaborations with Picasso, Auden, Cocteau and others. At every stage Boucourechliev's insights into Stravinsky's personality are interwoven with musical analysis, to reveal a fascinating picture of both man and music. André Boucourechliev is a well-known composer as well as a distinguished musicologist. He has written books on Schumann and Beethoven, contributes regularly to major reference works, journals and other publications, and has won many prestigious musical awards. He was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1925 and has lived in Paris since 1949. Photo: Lipnitzki-Viollet, 1924 Vissza