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Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky

By Bartig

Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky

By Bartig

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Audiences have long enjoyed Sergei Prokofievs musical score for Sergei Eisensteins 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. The historical epic cast a thirteenth-century Russian victory over invading Teutonic Knights as an allegory of contemporary Soviet strength in the face of Nazi warmongering. Prokofievs and Eisensteins work proved an enormous success, both as a collaboration of two of the twentieth centurys most prominent artists and as a means to bolster patriotism and national pride among Soviet audiences. Arranged as a cantata for concert performance, Prokofievs music for Alexander Nevsky music proved malleable, its meaning reconfigured to suit different circumstances and times. Author Kevin Bartig draws on previously unexamined archival materials to follow Prokofievs Alexander Nevsky from its inception through the present day. He considers the musics genesis as well as the surprisingly different ways it has engaged listeners over the past eighty years, from its beginnings as state propaganda in the 1930s to showpiece for high-fidelity recording in the 1950s to open-air concert favorite in the post-Soviet 1990s.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
174
Release Date:
2017-10-24
Publication Date:
2008-03-26
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190269561
ISBN13:
9780190269562
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
412 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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