Sergey Prokofiev and His World (eBook)

Simon Morrison (Herausgeber)

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2018
592 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19042-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigious childhood in tsarist Russia, maturation in the West, and rise and fall as a Stalinist-era composer is filled with unresolved questions. Sergey Prokofiev and His World probes beneath the surface of his career and contextualizes his contributions to music on both sides of the nascent Cold War divide. The book contains previously unknown documents from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow and the Prokofiev Estate in Paris. The literary notebook of the composer's mother, Mariya Grigoryevna, illuminates her involvement in his education and is translated in full, as are ninety-eight letters between the composer and his business partner, Levon Atovmyan. The collection also includes a translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's unperformed stage adaptation of Eugene Onegin, for which Prokofiev composed incidental music in 1936. The essays in the book range in focus from musical sketches to Kremlin decrees. The contributors explore Prokofiev's time in America; evaluate his working methods in the mid-1930s; document the creation of his score for the film Lieutenant Kizhe; tackle how and why Prokofiev rewrote his 1930 Fourth Symphony in 1947; detail his immortalization by Soviet bureaucrats, composers, and scholars; and examine Prokofiev's interest in Christian Science and the paths it opened for his music. The contributors are Mark Aranovsky, Kevin Bartig, Elizabeth Bergman, Leon Botstein, Pamela Davidson, Caryl Emerson, Marina Frolova-Walker, Nelly Kravetz, Leonid Maximenkov, Stephen Press, and Peter Schmelz.

Autor

Simon Morrison is associate professor of music at Princeton University. He is the author of Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement and The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Adrian Boult • aleksandr solzhenitsyn • Alexander Borodin • Alexander Dovzhenko • Alexander Ginzburg • Alexander Glazunov • Alexander Griboyedov • Alexander Kerensky • Alexander Ostrovsky • Alexander Scriabin • Alexander Tairov • Alexander Vassiliev • Anatoliy Brandukov • Andrei Gromyko • Anton Chekhov • Anton Schindler • Apollon Grigoryev • Aram Khachaturian • bolsheviks • Bolshoi Theatre • Boris Asafyev • Boris Godunov • Boris Khaykin • Boris Kochno • Boris Lyatoshinsky • Boris Pilnyak • Composer • Dmitri Shostakovich • Edison Denisov • Eugene Onegin • Follies • Fyodorov • Galina Vishnevskaya • Gennady Rozhdestvensky • George Balanchine • Hector Berlioz • Igor Stravinsky • Ilya Repin • In This World • John Alden Carpenter • Kamarinskaya • Kirill Molchanov • Konstantin Chernenko • Lenin Prize • Leonid Brezhnev • Leonid Sabaneyev • Leo Ornstein • Leopold Stokowski • Leo Tolstoy • Marc Blitzstein • Maxim Shostakovich • Mikhail Bakhtin • Mstislav Rostropovich • nicolas slonimsky • Nikita Khrushchev • Nikolai Gogol • Nikolay Nekrasov • Oleg Prokofiev • Onegin (Cranko) • On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences • oratorio • Pierre Boulez • Pyotr Pospelov • Pyotr Vyazemsky • Robert de Niro • Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians • Russian culture • Semyon Kotko • sergei diaghilev • Sergei Eisenstein • Sergei Prokofiev • Serge Koussevitzky • Sergey Konenkov • Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky • Solomon Volkov • Soviet Empire • Sovietization • Soviet Union • Sovremennik • The Gambler (Prokofiev) • Theodore Komisarjevsky • Tikhon Khrennikov • Tsarist bureaucracy • Union of Soviet Writers • Valery Gergiev • Vasily Tropinin • Vasily Zhukovsky • Viktor Shklovsky • Vladimir Chertkov • Vladimir Nabokov • Vladimir Rosing • Vladimir Solovyov (journalist) • Vladimir Stasov • Vladimir Toporov • Voskreseniye • Vsevolod Meyerhold • Vsevolod Pudovkin • Vyacheslav Molotov • Works Progress Administration • Yevgeny Yevtushenko
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19042-9 / 0691190429
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19042-6 / 9780691190426