Nicolas Nabokov a life in freedom and music
Giroud, Vincent 1953-
Nicolas Nabokov a life in freedom and music Vincent Giroud - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015. - 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 562, [32] Seiten) Illustrationen
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The Lubcza years -- The Petersburg years -- The road to exile -- In Stuttgart and Berlin -- Paris debuts -- Successes and frustrations -- New exile -- Engagement and Americanization -- In wartime Washington -- In postwar Germany -- Music and the cold war -- Moving center stage -- Masterpieces of the twentieth century -- Culture generalissimo -- The Rasputin years -- Disenchantment and new departure -- Berlin, Don Quixote, and the CIA -- Love's labours won
This first biography of Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) reevaluates the role of the Russian-born American composer as a postwar cultural force, notably as secretary general of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the 1950s and 1960s, and the contribution to twentieth-century music of this collaborator of Diaghilev, Stravinsky, and Balanchine.
9780199399932
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199399895.001.0001 doi
Nabokov, Nicolas
1903-1978
Komponist
Biografie
USA
Nicolas Nabokov a life in freedom and music Vincent Giroud - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015. - 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 562, [32] Seiten) Illustrationen
E-Book / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal
The Lubcza years -- The Petersburg years -- The road to exile -- In Stuttgart and Berlin -- Paris debuts -- Successes and frustrations -- New exile -- Engagement and Americanization -- In wartime Washington -- In postwar Germany -- Music and the cold war -- Moving center stage -- Masterpieces of the twentieth century -- Culture generalissimo -- The Rasputin years -- Disenchantment and new departure -- Berlin, Don Quixote, and the CIA -- Love's labours won
This first biography of Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) reevaluates the role of the Russian-born American composer as a postwar cultural force, notably as secretary general of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the 1950s and 1960s, and the contribution to twentieth-century music of this collaborator of Diaghilev, Stravinsky, and Balanchine.
9780199399932
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199399895.001.0001 doi
Nabokov, Nicolas
1903-1978
Komponist
Biografie
USA