Stravinsky : The Second Exile France And America 1934 1971

Local Description

2007, A trade paperback copy in very good condition with only light signs of use and a small old price sticker on the front wrap.

Description

In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris and already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation. This work follows Stravinsky through the remainder of his long life, which he would spend largely in the United States. It also shows his increasingly complex and often agonised family life.

Promotion info

The second and concluding volume of Stephen Walsh's authoritative and acclaimed biography of Igor Stravinsky.

Author description

Stephen Walsh is a critic and musicologist who has written and broadcast extensively on Stravinsky and many other aspects of twentieth-century music. He was for some years a music critic with the Observer and The Times, and now writes for the Independent. The widely praised first volume of the present biography, Stravinsky: A Creative Spring, won the Royal Philharmonic Society prize for best music book of the year 2000. Stephen Walsh currently holds a personal chair in the music department of Cardiff University.