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Stravinsky - A Creative Spring, Russia and France 1882-1934 (Paperback, New edition)
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Stravinsky - A Creative Spring, Russia and France 1882-1934 (Paperback, New edition)
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Widely regarded as the greatest composer of the twentieth century,
Igor Stravinsky was central to the development of modernism in art,
yet no dependable biography of him exists. Previous studies have
drawn too heavily from his own unreliable memoirs and
conversations, and until now no biographer has possessed both the
musical knowledge to evaluate his art and the linguistic
proficiency needed to explore the documentary background of his
life--a life whose span extended from tsarist Russia to
Switzerland, France, and ultimately the United States.
In this revealing volume, the first of two, Stephen Walsh follows
Stravinsky from his birth in 1882 to 1934. He traces the composer's
early Russian years, laying bare the complicated relationships
within his family and showing how he first displayed his
extraordinary talents. Stravinsky's brilliantly creative
involvement with the "Ballets Russes "is illuminated by a sharp
sense of the internal artistic politics that animated the group.
Portraying Stravinsky's circumstances as an emigre in France trying
to make his living as a conductor and pianist as well as a
composer, Walsh reveals the true roots of his notorious obsession
with money. He also describes the nature of his long affair with
Vera Sudeykina.
While always respecting Stravinsky's own insistence that life and
art be kept distinct, "Stravinsky "makes clear precisely how the
development of his music was connected to his life and to the
intellectual environment in which he found himself. But at the same
time it demonstrates the composer's remarkably pragmatic
psychology, which led him to consider the welfare of his art to be
of paramount importance, before which everything else had to give
way. Walsh, long established as an expert on Stravinsky's music,
has drawn upon a vast array of material, much of it unpublished or
unavailable in English, to bring the man himself, in all his color
and genius, to glowing life.
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