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Stravinsky

André Boucourechliev

出版	Holmes & Meier, 1987
主題	Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / MusicMusic / History & CriticismMusic / Individual Composer & Musician
ISBN	08419105889780841910584
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=STYIAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"Stravinsky's work, from Firebird and Le Sacre du Printemps to the Requiem Canticles, is admired by music lovers everywhere. But his art remains perplexing. No other modern composer has used such clear language, yet no other composer has aroused such conflicting passions, such violently opposed interpretations, or has gone through so many musical metamorphoses. His work strikes alliances with every epoch, and yet it stands alone in twentieth-century music: solitary, provocative, and protean. It is an astounding achievement, and in this remarkable critical biography André Boucourechliev takes us chronologically through the whole of it, analyzing the less familiar works as well as the famous masterpieces, challenging many widely held beliefs about Stravinsky's music. He covers Stravinsky's entire career: his early life in Russia; his years in France; the coming war and his escape to America; his marriages; his passions and his prejudices. Many first-person accounts throughout the book provide rare glimpses of Stravinsky--in his friendships with T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Nabokov, for example, and in his collaborations with Picasso, Auden, Cocteau and others. We also learn how this musician, whose career was so much the product of the upheavals of our century, found encouragement for his art in America, where he influenced the work of many creative artists, where he was honored by leading figures, including President Kennedy, and where the public took him to its heart." --Publisher's description.