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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154322403321

Autore

Giroud Vincent

Titolo

Nicolas Nabokov : a life in freedom and music

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-939991-3

0-19-939993-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

780.92

Soggetti

Composers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.