Open AccessBoris Asafiev as a Stravinsky scholar
Author(s) -
Svetlana Savenko
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
muzikologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0976
pISSN - 1450-9814
DOI - 10.2298/muz2131037s
Subject(s) - kiss (tnc) , musicology , art , literature , period (music) , art history , classics , aesthetics , computer science , computer network
Boris Asafiev, pen name Igor Glebov, was a Russian musicologist, composer, music critic, pedagogue, public figure, publicist; author of works devoted to the music of Igor Stravinsky. The article examines A Book about Stravinsky (1929), one of the earliest monographs on the composer in any language and the first one in Russian. It is characterized as an outstanding musicological study of Stravinsky?s works that had appeared by that time, that is, from the early period to the works completed in 1927 (Oedipus rex, Apollon musag?te and The Fairy?s Kiss).