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Diaspora --- Exil. --- Komponist. --- Migration. --- Russen. --- Geschichte 1950-2020.

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Composer and cultural official Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) led an unusual life even for a composer who was also a high-level diplomat. Nabokov was for nearly three decades an outstanding and far-sighted player in international cultural exchanges during the Cold War, much admired by some of the most distinguished minds of his century for the range of his interests and the breadth of his vision. Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music follows Nabokov's life through its fascinating details: a privileged Russian childhood before the Revolution; exile, first to Germany, then to France; the beginnings of a promising musical career, launched under the aegis of Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes with Ode in 1928; his twelve-year American exile during which he occupied several academic positions; his return to Europe after the war to participate in the denazification of Germany; his involvement in anti-Stalinist causes in the first years of the Cold War; his participation in the Congress for Cultural Freedom; his role as cultural adviser to the Mayor of Berlin and director of the Berlin Festival in the early 1960s; the resumption of his American academic and musical career in the late 1960s and 1970s. Nabokov is unique not only in that he was involved on a high level in international cultural politics, but also in that his life intersected at all times with a vast array of people within, and also well beyond, the confines of classical music. Drawing on a vast array of primary sources, Vincent Giroud's first-ever biography of Nabokov will be of interest readers interested in twentieth-century music, Russian music, Russian emigration, and the Cold War, particularly in its cultural aspects. Musicians and musicologists interested in Nabokov as a composer, or in twentieth century Russian composers in general, will find in the book information not available anywhere else.

Nabokov, Nikolai --- Composers --- Composers. --- Composers / Biography. --- Komponist. --- Nabokov, Nicolas, --- Nabokov, Nicolas / 1903-1978. --- USA. --- Nabokoff, Nicolas, --- Nabokov, Nikolaĭ, --- Nabokov, Nikolay,

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This book deals with three aspects that have been neglected in the burgeoning field of music and literature. The "First Movement" of the book considers writers from German Romanticism to the present who, like Robert Schumann, first saw themselves as writers before they turned to composition, or, like E. T. A. Hoffmann and Anthony Burgess, sought careers in music before becoming writers. It also considers the few operatic composers, such as Richard Wagner and Arnold Schoenberg, who wrote their own libretti. The "Second Movement" turns to literary works based specifically on musical compositions. This group includes, first and more generally, prose works whose author chose a specific musical form such as sonata or fugue as an organizational model. And second, it includes novels based structurally or thematically on specific compositions, such as Bach's Goldberg Variations. The "Finale" concludes with a unique case: efforts by modern composers to render musically the compositions described in detail by Thomas Mann in his novel Doktor Faustus. This book, which addresses itself to readers interested generally in music and literature and is written in a reader-friendly style, draws attention to unexplored dimensions of the music-literature relationship and to the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain writers and composers.

Theodore Ziolkowski is ProfessorEmeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.

Music and literature. --- Musicians as authors. --- Musique et littérature --- Ecrits de musiciens --- Komponist. --- Literatur. --- Musik. --- Musikalische Form. --- Rezeption. --- Romantik. --- Schriftsteller. --- Deutschland. --- Frankreich. --- Authors --- Literature and music --- Literature --- German literature. --- German music. --- comparative literature. --- moden composers. --- music and literature. --- music composition. --- music theory. --- musicology. --- romanticism. --- scholarship.

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No composer was more responsible for changes in the landscape of twentieth-century music than Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and no other composer's music inspired a commensurate quantity and quality of technical description in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet there is still little understanding of the correlations between Schoenberg's musical thought and larger questions of cultural significance in and since his time: the formalistic descriptions of music theory do not generally engage larger questions in the history of ideas and scholars without understanding of the formidable musical technique are ill-equipped to understand the music with any profundity of thought. Schoenberg's Musical Imagination is intended to connect Schoenberg's music and critical writings to a larger world of ideas. While most technical studies of Schoenberg's music are limited to a single compositional period, this book traces changes in his attitudes as a composer and their impact on his ever-changing compositional style over the course of his remarkable career.

Schoenberg, Arnold, --- Shenberg, Arnolʹd, --- Schönberg, Arnold, --- Schenberg, A. --- Shenberg, A. --- שנברג, ארנולד --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Composers --- Music --- Compositeurs --- Musique --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- MUSIC --- Composers & Musicians. --- Individual Composer & Musician. --- Schönberg, Arnold --- Schönberg, Arnold. --- Schönberg, A. --- Schönberg --- Schoenberg --- Šënberg, Arnolʹd --- Šenberg, Arnol'd --- Shenberg, Arnolʹd --- Schönberg, Arnold Franz Walter --- Schoenberg, Arnold --- Komponist --- Maler --- Dirigent --- Musiklehrer --- Künstler --- Lehrbeauftragter am Stern'schen Konservatorium --- Berlin --- Wien --- Los Angeles, Calif. --- USA --- <> Blaue Reiter --- Schönberg, Samuel --- Schönberg, Mathilde --- Schönberg, Gertrud --- Nono, Nuria Schoenberg --- Schoenberg, Randol --- Berg, Alban --- Webern, Anton --- Gronostay, Walter --- Schacht, Peter --- Engel, Carl --- Zemlinsky, Alexander <> --- 13.09.1874-13.07.1951 --- 1874-1951

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Josquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy' is the most up-to-date contribution to the research on one of the most important and internationally famous composers of the Renaissance. This monograph offers factual information on the composer as well as insights into his 16th-century and modern reception, a survey of the sources of his music, and a discussion of the thorny issue of authorship. Willem Elders, one of the most distinguished scholars of Josquin's music, also discusses the influence of Gregorian chant as a source of inspiration and explains the various aspects of Josquin's symbolic language. Each individual work (including some of those in the old Josquin edition now considered inauthentic) receives a short discussion of relevant contextual aspects and interesting musical features. Ranges and lengths are given for each work. The style is adapted to the professional musicologist as well as to the music lover' and performer.

Muziekwerken. --- Music --- Composers --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Josquin --- Josquin, --- De Pres, Josquin, --- Deprès, Josquin, --- Des Prés, Josquin, --- Des Prez, Josquin, --- Després, Josquin, --- Desprez, Josquin, --- Dupré, Josquin, --- Jodocus, --- Josse, --- Jusquin, --- Pres, Josquin de, --- Pres, Josquin des, --- Prez, Josquin des, --- Jodocus --- Deprez, Josquin --- Des Près, Josse --- Des Prés, Josquin --- Prés, Josquin D. --- Desprez, Josse --- Josse --- Dupré, Josquin --- Deprès, Josquin --- Pres, Josquin <> --- DesPrès, Josse --- DesPrés, Josquin --- Josquin Des Prez --- Iosquin De Pré --- Desprez, Josquin --- Prés, Josquin <> --- Després, Josquin --- Prez, Josquin <> --- Prez, Josquin Des --- Prez, Josquin des --- Komponist --- Musiker --- Condé-sur-l'Escaut --- -27.08.1521 --- 1440-1521 --- Criticim and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Frankrijk. --- Bourgondische Nederlanden. --- Josquin des Prez --- Josquinus Pratensis --- Jodocus Pratensis --- Jodocus a Prato --- Josquin Desprez --- des Prez, Josquin --- Lebloitte, Jossequin --- Lebloitte, Josquin