Funeral games in honor of Arthur Vincent Lourié
By: edited by Klára Móricz and Simon Morrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780199829446; 9780199377244; 9780199829453
Subjects: Composers; Biography
Description: This title explores the varied aesthetic impulses and ever-evolving personal motivations of Russian composer Arthur Lourié. A St Petersburg native allied with the Futurist movement and profoundly sympathetic to Silver Age decadence, Lourié was swept away by the Revolution; he surfaced as a Communist commissar of music before landing in Europe and America, where his career foundered. Making his way by serving others, he became Stravinsky's right-hand man.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Arthur Lourié : a biographical sketch / by Olesya Bobrik, translated by Klára Móricz and Simon Morrison; title: Turania revisited, with Lourié my guide / by Richard Taruskin; title: Koussevitzky's ghostwriter / by Simon Morrison; title: Retrieving what time destroys : the palimpsest of Lourié's the Blackamoor of Peter the Great / by Klára Móricz; title: Jacques Maritain and the Catholic muse in Lourie's post-Petersburg worlds / by Caryl Emerson; title: Epilogue : the silver age and tinseltown / by Simon Morrison.