Stravinsky: A Creative Spring
Widely regarded as the greatest composer of the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky was central to the development of modernism in art, yet no
dependable biography of him exists. Previous studies have drawn too heavily from his own unreliable memoirs and conversations, and until now no
biographer has possessed both the musical knowledge to evaluate his art and the linguistic proficiency needed to explore the documentary
background of his life--a life whose span extended from tsarist Russia to Switzerland, France, and ultimately the United States. In this revealing
volume, the first of two, Stephen Walsh follows Stravinsky from his birth in 1882 to 1934. While always respecting Stravinsky's own insistence that
life and art be kept distinct, Stravinsky makes clear precisely how the development of his music was connected to his life and to the intellectual
environment in which he found himself. But at the same time it demonstrates the composer's remarkably pragmatic psychology, which led him to
consider the welfare of his art to be of paramount importance, before which everything else had to give way. Walsh, long established as an expert
on Stravinsky's music, has drawn upon a vast array of material, much of it unpublished or unavailable in English, to bring the man himself, in all his
color and genius, to glowing life.
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