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Nicolas Nabokov : a life in freedom and music / Vincent Giroud

Von: Giroud, Vincent, 1953- [Verfasser]Materialtyp: TextTextSprache: Englisch Verlag: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Beschreibung: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 562, [32] Seiten) IllustrationenInhaltstyp: Text Medientyp: Computermedien Datenträgertyp: Online-RessourceISBN: 9780199399932Schlagwörter: Nabokov, Nicolas | 1903-1978 | Komponist | Biografie | USAAndere physische Formen: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Festeinband Online-Ressourcen: Volltext
Inhalte:
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
Zusammenfassung: 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.

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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.

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