“The Whole World is a Foreign Land for Us…”

Svetlana I. Savenko

Issue № 2 (790) | 2025

Review

“The Whole World is a Foreign Land for Us…”

This article is written in Russian. You can read it here.

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DOI 10.34690/473

Author Svetlana I. Savenko

Abstract

The publication of Klára Móricz’s book is a notable event in the Russian actual musicology. The subject of the author’s analysis is the work of Russian composers who, after October revolution, in the 1920s and 30s, became inhabitants of Paris: Vladimir Dukelsky, Nikolai Nabokov, Sergei Prokofiev and Arthur Lurie. All four are presented as a community of musicians united by the traumatic experience of emigration, which Móricz correlates with the successful creative evolution of Igor Stravinsky. In her opinion, it was Stravinsky, who turned from a subversive innovator into a neoclassical conservative, who managed to find a way out of the “conflict between the narrative of modernism, which requires constant innovation, and the narrative of exile, which considers its mission the preservation of past culture. The review notes the richness and variety of documentary sources of the book, the widespread use of the cultural method. However, the basic concept of Móricz’s book is viewed critically.

For citation

Savenko, S. I. “The whole world is a foreign land for us…” Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 2, 2025, pp. 222–233, doi:10.34690/473. (In Russ.)

Published 25.05.2025

Approved 05.06.2025

Submitted 27.06.2025

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