Nicolas Nabokov : a life in freedom and music /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Giroud, Vincent (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Nabokov, Nicolas, > 1903-1978.
Nabokov, Nicolas, > 1903-1978
Composers > Biography.
Compositeurs > Biographies.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Reference.
Composers
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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