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Author Griffiths, Graham, 1954-

Title Stravinsky's piano : genesis of a musical language / Graham Griffiths
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Music since 1900
Music since 1900
Contents Becoming a Russian musician -- Becoming a neoclassicist -- Stravinsky's piano workshop -- Departures and homecomings
Summary "Stravinsky's re-invention in the early 1920s, as both neoclassical composer and concert-pianist, is here placed at the centre of a fundamental re-consideration of his whole output - viewed from the unprecedented perspective of his relationship with the piano. Graham Griffiths assesses Stravinsky's musical upbringing in St Petersburg with emphasis on his education at the hands of two extraordinary teachers whom he later either ignored or denounced: Leokadiya, for piano, and Rimsky-Korsakov, for instrumentation. Their message, Griffiths argues, enabled Stravinsky to formulate from that intensely Russian experience an internationalist brand of neoclassicism founded upon the premises of objectivity and craft. Drawing directly on the composer's manuscripts, Griffiths addresses Stravinsky's life-long fascination with counterpoint and with pianism's constructive processes. Stravinsky's Piano presents both of these as recurring features of the compositional attitudes that Stravinsky consistently applied to his works, whether Russian, neoclassical or serial, and regardless of idiom and genre."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Piano music.
SUBJECT Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 fast
Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971 gnd
Piano music (Stravinsky, Igor) fast
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
Klaviermusik
Pianomusik.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012031734
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