SKU: HL.49007038
Leben - Werke -
Dokumente. Composed
by Igor Stravinsky. This
edition: Hardback/Hard
Cover. Book. Edition
Schott. Classical. 447
pages. Schott Music #ED
7192. Published by Schott
Music (HL.49007038).
ISBN 9783795723026.
4.75x7.25x0.889 inches.
German.
St.
Petersburg - Paris -
Swiss exile - France -
USA, these places refer
to stages during the long
life of a composer who
greatly enriched music
history by a plethora of
works of different
styles. Igor Stravinsky's
sophisticated oeuvre has
enriched almost all
genres: from sonata to
solo concerto, from song
to opera, from ballet
music to symphony The
list of different
composition styles
mastered by Stravinsky
during his creative life
is just as multi-faceted:
from the style of the
first years influenced by
his teacher
Rimsky-Korsakov to the
'cubist' composition of
the scandal-ridden 'Sacre
du printemps' for
example, from the
neoclassicism of
'Pulcinella' to the
twelve-note 'Movements' -
right up to excursions
into jazz music. As a
consequence,
disorientation and lack
of stylistic uniformity
respectively were just
two of the prejudices
Stravinsky was faced
with. Such prejudices are
countered in this book by
Wolfgang Burde who
illustrates that the
composer never wrote 'a
la mode' or 'a la maniere
de', but always
incorporated newly
discovered compositional
techniques or even
specific form models in
his personal way of
thinking. Here, it
becomes apparent why
Stravinsky, according to
Wolfgang Burde, ranked
'among the most important
composers of the European
avant-garde next to
Claude Debussy and
Schoenberg'.