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Stravinsky / Paul Griffiths.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Master musicians seriesPublication details: London : Dent, 1992.Description: xiii, 253 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., music ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0460860631
  • 9780460860635
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 780.92 STR
Contents:
1. Childhood -- 2. Apprenticeship -- 3. The Firebird -- 4. Petrushka -- 5. The Rite of Spring -- 6. Three Japanese Lyrics and a Chinese opera -- 7. Around Les notes -- 8. Histoire du soldat and other rags -- 9. Pergolesi and after -- 10. A Russian opera and an octet -- 11. Piano and pianola -- 12. A Latin opera -- 13. The muses' summer -- 14. Symphony of Psalms -- 15. Stravinsky's violin -- 16. A French melodrama -- 17. Cards and concertos -- 18. Symphony in C -- 19. Symphony in Three Movements -- 20. The mass of Orpheus -- 21. An American opera -- 22. New songs -- 23. Ag - Canticum sacrum - on -- 24. Threnodies, movements and monuments -- 25. Stories from the Bible -- 26. Memorials -- 27. Silence -- Appendices -- A. Calendar -- B. List of works -- C. List of recordings -- D. Personalia -- E. Bibliography.
Summary: "As the twentieth century draws to a close, Stravinsky's stature as one of its 'master musicians' is indisputable. His active career as a composer covered fully two-thirds of the century, from the songs and symphony he wrote as a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov in St Petersburg to the sacred monuments he produced as an old man in Los Angeles. Between these early and late works stretched a creative life that included many of the great triumphs of Dyagilev's Ballets Russes, children's piano pieces, works based on Greek myth and on Russian peasant theatre, new approaches to concerto grosso form as well as to ragtime, liturgies as well as sketches for circus or revue, reworkings of Gesualdo as well as rethinkings with Boulez. Stravinsky's influence is incalculable and again extraordinarily wide-ranging, felt by composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to those who were not yet born when he died in 1971. In his long, honoured life he came into contact with people from Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Gide, T.S. Eliot and Auden to John F. Kennedy and Benito Mussolini, from Picasso, Nijinsky and Jean Cocteau to Louis B. Mayer. Paul Griffiths surveys Stravinsky's vastly variegated life and output in one chronological sweep, showing how certain basic images and ideas resound again and again in the music, but also emphasising his remarkable capacity to start afresh, to confront us not with one Stravinsky but with many. This is the first introduction to Stravinsky to profit from the publication of his correspondence and other documents; it also includes a more comprehensive and detailed list of works than has hitherto been achievable." -- Dust jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-243) and index.

1. Childhood -- 2. Apprenticeship -- 3. The Firebird -- 4. Petrushka -- 5. The Rite of Spring -- 6. Three Japanese Lyrics and a Chinese opera -- 7. Around Les notes -- 8. Histoire du soldat and other rags -- 9. Pergolesi and after -- 10. A Russian opera and an octet -- 11. Piano and pianola -- 12. A Latin opera -- 13. The muses' summer -- 14. Symphony of Psalms -- 15. Stravinsky's violin -- 16. A French melodrama -- 17. Cards and concertos -- 18. Symphony in C -- 19. Symphony in Three Movements -- 20. The mass of Orpheus -- 21. An American opera -- 22. New songs -- 23. Ag - Canticum sacrum - on -- 24. Threnodies, movements and monuments -- 25. Stories from the Bible -- 26. Memorials -- 27. Silence -- Appendices -- A. Calendar -- B. List of works -- C. List of recordings -- D. Personalia -- E. Bibliography.

"As the twentieth century draws to a close, Stravinsky's stature as one of its 'master musicians' is indisputable. His active career as a composer covered fully two-thirds of the century, from the songs and symphony he wrote as a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov in St Petersburg to the sacred monuments he produced as an old man in Los Angeles. Between these early and late works stretched a creative life that included many of the great triumphs of Dyagilev's Ballets Russes, children's piano pieces, works based on Greek myth and on Russian peasant theatre, new approaches to concerto grosso form as well as to ragtime, liturgies as well as sketches for circus or revue, reworkings of Gesualdo as well as rethinkings with Boulez. Stravinsky's influence is incalculable and again extraordinarily wide-ranging, felt by composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to those who were not yet born when he died in 1971. In his long, honoured life he came into contact with people from Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Gide, T.S. Eliot and Auden to John F. Kennedy and Benito Mussolini, from Picasso, Nijinsky and Jean Cocteau to Louis B. Mayer.
Paul Griffiths surveys Stravinsky's vastly variegated life and output in one chronological sweep, showing how certain basic images and ideas resound again and again in the music, but also emphasising his remarkable capacity to start afresh, to confront us not with one Stravinsky but with many. This is the first introduction to Stravinsky to profit from the publication of his correspondence and other documents; it also includes a more comprehensive and detailed list of works than has hitherto been achievable." -- Dust jacket

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