Stravinsky and France

Reception, Interactions, and Legacy
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64825-156-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Médicis, François de

Rae, Caroline

Trottier, Danick

Weitere Mitwirkende

Klara Moricz, Klára

Avramova, Nataliia

Balanche, François

Campbell, Edward

Cathé, Philippe

Cross, Jonathan

Médicis, François de

Duchesneau, Michel

Gaboriaud, Marie

Garino, Alessandro

Hakim, Katia-Sofia

Huebner, Steven

Lawson, Rex

Federico Lazzaro, Federico

Moron, Nicolas

Perreault, Isabelle

Rae, Caroline

Redepenning, Dorothea

Trottier, Danick

van den Toorn, Pieter C.

Walsh, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Trottier, Danick
DANICK TROTTIER is Professor of Music at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

Médicis, François de
FRANÇOIS DE MÉDICIS is Professor of Music at the Université de Montréal, Canada

Rae, Caroline
CAROLINE RAE is Professor of Music at Cardiff University, UK.

Huebner, Steven
STEVEN HUEBNER is the James McGill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.

Trottier, Danick
DANICK TROTTIER is Professor of Music at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

Rae, Caroline
CAROLINE RAE is Professor of Music at Cardiff University, UK.

Médicis, François de
FRANÇOIS DE MÉDICIS is Professor of Music at the Université de Montréal, Canada