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9780711976511

Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers:Stravinsky

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  • ISBN13:

    9780711976511

  • ISBN10:

    0711976511

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-03-01
  • Publisher: Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

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Summary

This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.

Author Biography

Neil Wenborn graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and worked at the Bodleian Library in Oxford before pursuing a successful career in publishing. He is now a full-time author and publishing consultant, whose other works include biographies of Mozart and Haydn. He is also co-editor of the highly respected Companion to British History. His poetry has been published both in Britain and in the United States and has been awarded two prestigious international prizes.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Early Life (1882-1902)
11(16)
The years of apprenticeship (1903-1909)
27(16)
Celebrity (1910-1914)
43(24)
The loss of Russia (1914-1920)
67(20)
Art and profession (1920-1927)
87(20)
Towards America (1927-1939)
107(22)
A double emigre (1939-1945)
129(14)
The American citizen (1946-1951)
143(14)
The second crisis (1952-1957)
157(12)
The final flowering (1957-1966)
169(20)
The last years (1967-1971)
189(6)
Further Reading 195(2)
Stravinsky's recordings of Stravinsky 197(4)
Index 201

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