The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky By: Jonathan Cross

Author: Jonathan Cross

Stravinsky’s work spanned the major part of the twentieth-century and was engaged with nearly all its principal compositional developments. Reflecting the breadth of his phenomenal achievement, this Companion contains a wide range of essays in three broad sections covering the contexts within which Stravinsky worked–Russian, modernist and compositional, with his key compositions–Russian, neoclassical and serial, and with the reception of his ideas–through performance, analysis and criticism. The volume concludes with an interview with the composer Louis Andriessen and a major re-evaluation of Stravinsky and us by Richard Taruskin.