Affiliation
Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Abstract
The article spotlights Igor Stravinsky’s orchestral suite “Four Norwegian Moods” (1942) inspired by a Hollywood commission to create a soundtrack for the military film “The Commandos Strike at Dawn.” Studying the autographs of Stravinsky’s archive at the Paul Sacher Foundation, previously unknown epistolary evidence, and documentary facts allow us to take a fresh look at this Stravinsky’s “peripheral” work. The article reconstructs a creation history and first performances of the suite, provides an analytical description of its composition, formulates the problem of folklore sources, and outlines the ways for further researching the suite as a unique experience of Stravinsky’s contact with folklore material different from Russian.
For citation
Braginskaya, N. A. “Igor Stravinsky in 1942: a case of the ‘Four Norwegian Moods’.” Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 1, 2023, pp. 116–125, doi:10.34690/293. (In Russ.)
Published
10.01.2023
Approved
14.02.2023
Submitted
27.03.2023
© © Брагинская Н. А., 2023
