JOURNAL ARTICLE

Reconsidering Stravinsky in Exile: The Tangled Taxonomy of His World War II "Victory" Symphony.

  • Published In: Social Research, 2024, v. 91, n. 2. P. 545 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Horowitz, Joseph 3 of 3

Abstract

In his polemics, composer Igor Stravinsky in exile insisted on the liberating autonomy of the creative act. But the tangled history of his Symphony in Three Movements, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as a "victory symphony" in 1945, suggests a composition process that was less than fluent. This "symphony" complexly monograms its composer's layered identity, disclosing a condition of exile equally challenged and resourceful. Had Stravinsky less cause for resilience—had there been no Bolshevik Revolution, no world upheaval—he might have left a musical legacy less intriguingly textured with self-denial and reinvention, less mediated by rationalization, more sustained in the elemental energies powering his initial creative surge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Social Research. 2024/06, Vol. 91, Issue 2, p545
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0037-783X
  • DOI:10.1353/sor.2024.a930756
  • Accession Number:178586126
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