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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Móricz, Klára, 1962- author.

Contributor:

Roth Family foundation, sponsoring body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.

Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969.

Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.

Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978.

Lourié, Arthur, 1892-1966.

Music--France--Paris--20th century--History and criticism.

Expatriate composers--France--Paris.

Composers--Soviet Union.

Composers.

Expatriate composers.

Music.

France--Paris.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 290 pages : illustrations, musical notation ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]

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.

"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, Kl�ara M�oricz explores the transnational emigrant space of Russian composers Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Dukelsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Nicolas Nabokov, and Arthur Louri�e 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.

Contents:

Introduction

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Móricz, Klára, 1962- In Stravinsky's orbit

ISBN:

9780520344426

0520344421

OCLC:

1124777361

Publisher Number:

99985087808