Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levitz, Tamara
• TAMARA LEVITZ

Titel

Stravinsky’s Cold War: Letters About the Composer’s Return to Russia, 1960–1963

Ist Teil von

• Stravinsky and His World, 2013, Vol.33, p.273-318

Ort / Verlag

United States: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In fall 1962, Igor Stravinsky returned to Russia for the first time in forty-eight years. He had left in 1914, not knowing at the time, of course, how long the separation would last. When Lenin revoked citizenship for expatriates in 1921, Stravinsky had become stateless and could remain in Europe only with a Nansen passport, which he kept until he acquired French citizenship in 1934.¹ Many observers underplayed his refugee status, and operated under the false assumption that Stravinsky had “slipped” into becoming an émigré, rather than being forced into exile. But he was in fact stateless, and in a