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

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

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrations Series California studies in 20th-century music ; 26 California studies in 20th-century music ; 26. Contents 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 19, 2020) Subject Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969. Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953. Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978. Lourié, Arthur, 1892-1966. Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969 Lourié, Arthur, 1892-1966 Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978 Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 Music -- France -- Paris -- 20th century -- History and criticism Expatriate composers -- France -- Paris Composers -- Soviet Union MUSIC / History & Criticism Composers Expatriate composers Music France -- Paris Soviet Union Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Roth Family foundation. Imprint in music, issuing body LC no. 2019044473 ISBN 9780520975521 0520975529

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