A new look at one of the most important composers of the twentith century Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. Contributors examine Stravinsky's interaction with Spanish and Latin American modernism, rethink the stylistic label "neoclassicism" with a section on the ideological conflict over his lesser-known opera buffa Mavra , and reassess his connections to his homeland, paying special attention to Stravinsky's visit to the Soviet Union in 1962. The essays also explore Stravinsky's musical and religious differences with Arthur Lourié, delve into Stravinsky's collaboration with Pyotr Suvchinsky and Roland-Manuel in the genesis of his groundbreaking Poetics of Music , and look at how the movement within stasis evident in the scores of Stravinsky's Orpheus and Oedipus Rex reflected the composer's fierce belief in fate. Rare documents―including Spanish and Mexican interviews, Russian letters, articles by Arthur Lourié, and rarely seen French and Russian texts―supplement the volume, bringing to life Stravinsky's rich intellectual milieu and intense personal relationships. The contributors are Tatiana Baranova, Leon Botstein, Jonathan Cross, Valérie Dufour, Gretchen Horlacher, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, Leonora Saavedra, and Svetlana Savenko. "Framed by Jonathan Cross's stylish response to the theme 'Stravinsky in exile', and Leon Botstein's thoughts on the rewards of considering the composer alongside fellow Russian exile Vladimir Nabokov, the book seeks new angles on Stravinsky and Russia in the years after 1912, and on the role of Russians . . . during Stravinsky's time in France. . . . [L]evitz herself can be unsparing in drawing a detailed, warts-and-all portrait of the great composer." ---Arnold Whittall, Musical Times "Tamara Levitz’s Stravinsky and his World contains some of the most unexpected and engaging discoveries of the crop of books that appeared to mark the centenary of The Rite of Spring ." ---Philip Ross Bullock, Slavonic and East European Review Tamara Levitz is professor of musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her books include Teaching New Classicality and Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone . STRAVINSKY AND HIS WORLD By TAMARA LEVITZ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Copyright © 2013 Princeton University Press All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-691-15988-1 Contents Preface and Acknowledgments................................................viiA Note on Transliteration and Titles of Works..............................xivCredits and Permissions....................................................xvStravinsky in Exile JONATHAN CROSS........................................3Who Owns Mavra? A Transnational Dispute INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ TRANSLATIONS BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN, KATYA ERMOLAEV, LAUREL E. FAY, ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK, AND TAMARA LEVITZ....................................21Stravinsky's Russian Library TATIANA BARANOVA MONIGHETTI..................61The Futility of Exhortation: Pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus GRETCHEN HORLACHER................................................79Symphonies and Funeral Games: Lourié's Critique of Stravinsky's Neoclassicism KLÁRA MÓRICZ................................................105Arthur Lourié's Eurasianist and Neo-Thomist Responses to the Crisis of Art INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY KLÁRA MÓRICZ TRANSLATION BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN, KATYA ERMOLAEV, YASHA KLOTS, TAMARA LEVITZ, KLÁRA MÓRICZ, AND BORIS WOLFSON....................................................................127Igor the Angeleno: The Mexican Connection TAMARA LEVITZ...................141Stravinsky Speaks to the Spanish-Speaking World INTRODUCTION BY LEONORA SAAVEDRA INTERVIEWS TRANSLATED BY MARIEL FIORI IN COLLABORATION WITH TAMARA LEVITZ DOCUMENT NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ..............................177The Poétique musicale: A Counterpoint in Three Voices VALÉRIE DUFOUR TRANSLATED BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN AND TAMARA LEVITZ...........................225Stravinsky: The View from Russia SVETLANA SAVENKO TRANSLATED BY PHILIPP PENKA......................................................................255Stravinsky's Cold War: Letters About the Composer's Return to Russia, 1960–1963 LETTERS TRANSLATED BY PHILIPP PENKA WITH ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARY, AND NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ.......................273"The Precision of Poetry and the Exactness of Pure Science": The Parallel Lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky LEON BOTSTEIN...............319Index......................................................................349Notes on Contributors......................................................365 CHAPTE