Stravinsky

By: Stephen Walsh

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Paperback | 3 March 2008

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Stephen Walsh's magisterial, engagingly written two-volume Stravinsky is the most detailed and extensive work available on the life of the man widely regarded as the greatest composer of the twentieth century. This second volume takes up the composer's story in 1934, in a Europe growing ever more chaotic in the lead-up to World War II. Walsh follows Stravinsky's emigration to the United States, where he courted Hollywood, associated with writers and artists including Aldous Huxley, W.H. Auden, and George Balanchine, began a career as a conductor and recording artist, and composed a string of masterpieces that changed the course of twentieth-century music. Stravinsky: The Second Exile takes full account of Russian-language sources, including much correspondence, made available since the composer's death and since the fall of the Soviet Union, and is the first work to thoroughly assess the authenticity of many of the writings published under Stravinsky's name.

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"Among the best musical biographies of the last half-century, patiently disentangling fact and myth." Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Entr'acte: A House Divided	p. xiii
A Gentle and a Free Spirit	p. 3
The Poet of Montparnasse	p. 14
Graves of Academe	p. 27
An Enemy of Democracy	p. 42
Death Deals...	p. 56
... and Wins	p. 74
To the Magic Mountain	p. 89
The Poetics of Survival	p. 104
A House in the Hills	p. 124
To Earn Is Human	p. 141
The Broad Way and the Strait Gate	p. 155
Distant Clashes of Arms	p. 172
Orpheus in a New Guise	p. 188
The Eye of the Needle	p. 203
The Progress Begins	p. 219
A Family Happy in Its Own Way	p. 235
Death of a Prophet	p. 251
The Time-Traveller Comes Ashore	p. 268
Count One, Count Two, Count Twelve	p. 285
Brief Encounter	p. 302
Competition of the Gods	p. 316
An Echo Chamber by Candlelight	p. 330
The Eternal Footman Holds His Coat	p. 345
Talking the Book	p. 357
He Hath Set Me in Dark Places	p. 373
The Pilot Fish at Sea	p. 388
A Strange Concoction	p. 403
Largo al Factotum	p. 419
Sinking the Ark	p. 433
A Guest in His Own Country	p. 449
The Sacre Papers	p. 472
The Sacrifice of Sir Isaiah	p. 485
Smiling for the Camera	p. 501
Final Curtain	p. 516
A Family Affair	p. 530
A Fine and Private Place	p. 547
But None Do There Embrace	p. 564
Stravinsky's Works from 1935	p. 573
Notes	p. 577
Bibliography	p. 679
Index	p. 687
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