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Bringing new insights to Stravinsky's multifaceted relationships and artistic interactions in France, this wide-ranging collection explores the composer's reception, legacy and influence into the twenty-first century.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century and a pivotal figure of musical modernism, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) rose to international fame with the Paris premieres of his early Russian ballets The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring. From that point on, France played a decisive role in shaping his career and establishing him as an icon of the Parisian avant-garde.
Authored by internationally recognized and emerging scholars, this volume offers a new critical assessment of Stravinsky's multifaceted relationships and activities in France from 1910 to 1939, tracing how French artistic circles influenced his creative development and how his presence, in turn, reshaped the country's musical and cultural landscape. Addressing questions of identity, style, politics and memory across different cultural, intellectual and musical contexts, this wide-ranging and methodologically diverse collection of essays provides fresh perspectives on the composer's reception and interactions as well as the enduring legacy of his influence in twenty-first century France.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century and a pivotal figure of musical modernism, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) rose to international fame with the Paris premieres of his early Russian ballets The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring. From that point on, France played a decisive role in shaping his career and establishing him as an icon of the Parisian avant-garde.
Authored by internationally recognized and emerging scholars, this volume offers a new critical assessment of Stravinsky's multifaceted relationships and activities in France from 1910 to 1939, tracing how French artistic circles influenced his creative development and how his presence, in turn, reshaped the country's musical and cultural landscape. Addressing questions of identity, style, politics and memory across different cultural, intellectual and musical contexts, this wide-ranging and methodologically diverse collection of essays provides fresh perspectives on the composer's reception and interactions as well as the enduring legacy of his influence in twenty-first century France.
Price: $190.00
Pages: 448
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Publication Date:
27 October 2026
Trim Size: 8.93 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781648251566
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Composers and songwriters, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Ballet, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, HISTORY / Europe / France, History of music, Ballet, Biography: arts and entertainment
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
François de Médicis, Caroline Rae, and Danick Trottier
PART 1: Longings for a Native Culture
1 Stravinsky the Extraterritorial
Jonathan Cross
2 Stravinsky's Orthodox Church Music
Dorothea Redepenning
3 "You belong to the past!" Between Admiration and Rejection: Prokofiev's Ambivalent Stance
on Stravinsky During Their Paris Years
Nicolas Moron
PART 2: Style and Musical Ideas
4 "Zoum! Zoum! Zoum! Patazoum!" The Burlesque in Stravinsky's Renard
Katia-Sofia Hakim
5 Glass Half Full or Half Empty: Stravinsky's "Proto-Jazz" Cocktails, 1918-1924
François de Médicis
6 Stravinsky and his Pianola Piano Roll Recordings
Rex Lawson
7 Cocteau, Stravinsky, and Oedipus Rex
Steven Huebner
8 From France to Los Angeles: Stravinsky and the Neoclassical Idiom
Pieter van den Toorn
PART 3: Discourses and Reception
9 In Search of Literary Stravinskyism: Critical Meditations and Poetic Renewal in France,
1910-1939
Isabelle Perreault
10 Stravinskyism(s): Discourses on Stravinsky's Influence in the French Musical Press, 1910-1940
Federico Lazzaro
11 Stravinsky in Biographical Collections, 1931-1965: Media Issues and Canonization Strategies for the Non-Specialist Public
Marie Gaboriaud
12 The Problem of Stravinsky's Legacy and Musique en jeu: Between Amnesia and Anamnesis
Danick Trottier
13 Boucourechliev and his "Ethical" Discourse on Stravinsky: From the Emancipation of the Music to that of the Listener
François Balanche
PART 4: Stravinsky and French Composers
14 Stravinsky's Strategic Network of French Musical Friendships, 1910-1923
François de Médicis, Alessandro Garino, and Natalia Avramova
15 Forty Years of Coherent Contrast: Stravinsky as seen by Koechlin
Philippe Cathé and Michel Duchesneau
16 Stravinsky, Boulez, and the Politics of the Aviary
Stephen Walsh
17 Echoes of The Rite: Ohana, Jolivet, and the Style incantatoire
Caroline Rae
18 Generational Lines of Flight: Stravinsky and Subsequent Compositional Trends in France
Edward Campbell
Afterword: Erasures
Klára Móricz
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
François de Médicis, Caroline Rae, and Danick Trottier
PART 1: Longings for a Native Culture
1 Stravinsky the Extraterritorial
Jonathan Cross
2 Stravinsky's Orthodox Church Music
Dorothea Redepenning
3 "You belong to the past!" Between Admiration and Rejection: Prokofiev's Ambivalent Stance
on Stravinsky During Their Paris Years
Nicolas Moron
PART 2: Style and Musical Ideas
4 "Zoum! Zoum! Zoum! Patazoum!" The Burlesque in Stravinsky's Renard
Katia-Sofia Hakim
5 Glass Half Full or Half Empty: Stravinsky's "Proto-Jazz" Cocktails, 1918-1924
François de Médicis
6 Stravinsky and his Pianola Piano Roll Recordings
Rex Lawson
7 Cocteau, Stravinsky, and Oedipus Rex
Steven Huebner
8 From France to Los Angeles: Stravinsky and the Neoclassical Idiom
Pieter van den Toorn
PART 3: Discourses and Reception
9 In Search of Literary Stravinskyism: Critical Meditations and Poetic Renewal in France,
1910-1939
Isabelle Perreault
10 Stravinskyism(s): Discourses on Stravinsky's Influence in the French Musical Press, 1910-1940
Federico Lazzaro
11 Stravinsky in Biographical Collections, 1931-1965: Media Issues and Canonization Strategies for the Non-Specialist Public
Marie Gaboriaud
12 The Problem of Stravinsky's Legacy and Musique en jeu: Between Amnesia and Anamnesis
Danick Trottier
13 Boucourechliev and his "Ethical" Discourse on Stravinsky: From the Emancipation of the Music to that of the Listener
François Balanche
PART 4: Stravinsky and French Composers
14 Stravinsky's Strategic Network of French Musical Friendships, 1910-1923
François de Médicis, Alessandro Garino, and Natalia Avramova
15 Forty Years of Coherent Contrast: Stravinsky as seen by Koechlin
Philippe Cathé and Michel Duchesneau
16 Stravinsky, Boulez, and the Politics of the Aviary
Stephen Walsh
17 Echoes of The Rite: Ohana, Jolivet, and the Style incantatoire
Caroline Rae
18 Generational Lines of Flight: Stravinsky and Subsequent Compositional Trends in France
Edward Campbell
Afterword: Erasures
Klára Móricz
List of Contributors
Index