Stravinsky / Paul Griffiths.

As the twentieth century draws to a close, Igor 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 the symphony he wrote as a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg to the music on...

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Main Author: Griffiths, Paul, 1947 November 24-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Schirmer Books : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993, ℗♭1992.
Edition:1st American ed.
Series:Master musicians series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Childhood
  • Apprenticeship
  • The firebird
  • Petrushka
  • The rite of spring
  • Three Japanese lyrics and a Chinese opera
  • Around Les noces
  • Histoire du soldat and other rags
  • Pergolesi and after
  • A Russian opera and an octet
  • Piano and pianola
  • A Latin opera
  • The muses' summer
  • Symphony of psalms
  • Stravinsky's violin
  • A French melodrama
  • Cards and concertos
  • Symphony in C
  • Symphony in three movements
  • The mass of Orpheus
  • An American opera
  • New songs
  • Ag-Canticum sacrum-on
  • Threnodies, movements and monuments
  • Stories from the Bible
  • Memorials
  • Silence
  • Appendices: A. Calendar
  • B. List of works
  • C. List of recordings
  • D. Personalia
  • E. Bibliography.