In the orbit of Stravinsky. Russian Paris and his rehearsal of modernism

In this book, Clara Moritz explores the transnational emigrant space that developed around Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Dukelsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Nikolai Nabokov and Arthur Lurie in interwar Paris. Their music reflected the conflict between the modernist narrative, requiring constant creative innovation, and the narrative of exile related to the preservation of pre -revolutionary Russian culture. Ideas about Russia and its past, characteristic of emigrants, then

And the case came across the French capital with a completely different way of old Russia, which was created in political and cultural products, which was brought to Paris from the Soviet Union. Another problem of the emigrant composer community was a disproportionately large influence of Stravinsky: succumbing to the fashion dictated by their famous compatriot, the composers risked becoming epigones if they remained in their former stylistic positions, risked becoming irrelevant