Volume 53, Number 13 · August 10, 2006
All in the Family
By Michael Kimmelman
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971
by Stephen Walsh
Knopf, 709 pp., $40.00
The second volume of Stephen Walsh's exhaustive and eloquent life of Stravinsky completes the story of the most famous composer of the twentieth century, who has been endlessly written about but who has remained something of a difficult case for biographers. As Walsh points out, there are hurdles of language—Russian as well as French and English—and for years there was the inaccessibility of certain source materials. But in recent years, the composer's private papers and manuscripts, along with his father's account books, have been made available, and Richard Taruskin's long study of Stravinsky's Russian heritage has been published. The first volume of Walsh's work Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882–1934, appeared in 1999. Something like a full and fresh account was emerging.
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