TY - BOOK AU - Giroud,Vincent TI - Nicolas Nabokov: a life in freedom and music SN - 9780199399932 PY - 2015/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Nabokov, Nicolas KW - Komponist KW - gnd KW - Biografie KW - USA N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199399895.001.0001 ER -