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Igor Stravinsky (Paperback)
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Igor Stravinsky (Paperback)
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Igor Stravinsky lived the life of a celebrity composer in an
increasingly celebrity-obsessed age. He was a true modern, a man of
his time. In Paris he dined with Joyce, Picasso and Proust, and by
the end of his life was being feted by both the White House and the
Kremlin as a prime piece of Cold War capital. But his colourful
life would be mean little to us were it not for the brilliant and
original music he produced, music that reflected and shaped his own
times, and which continues to speak today.Born in Russia,
Stravinsky spent most of his long life in exile. While he swiftly
became a cosmopolitan composer, speaking the international language
of modernist 'Western' music, the sting of his estrangement never
left him. The sense of distance, loss and nostalgia, the wistful
looking back evident in so much of Stravinsky's music, is not only
a response to personal tragedy, but also a powerful expression of
the deep anxiety and alienation of his age. Igor Stravinsky offers
an in-depth critical overview of the life and work of this
extraordinary citizen of the 20th Century. Jonathan Cross's
accessible and engaging biography offers a new understanding of how
Stravinsky's life lived in exile can be understood through his
creative work, and gives a fresh portrait of a milieu stretching
from St Petersburg, to Paris and Los Angeles, all seen through the
eyes of this fascinating composer.
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