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245 10 a| Sergei Koussevitzky and his epoch :b| a biographical chronicle /c| by Arthur Lourié ; translated from the Russian by S. W. Pring.;

260 a| New York :b| Alfred A. Knopf,c| 1931.;

300 a| xiv, 253, v pages :b| illustrations, portraits ;c| 23 cm;

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505 0 a| Part I. A portrait -- Childhood -- Student years -- A serenade on the double-bass -- From double-bass to conductor's desk -- Berlin at the beginning of the twentieth century -- Part II. A glance at history -- The publishing venture -- Concerts (St. Petersburg, Moscow, and the Volga tour) -- The modernists -- From Tchaikovsky to Scriabin -- The war -- The revolution -- Part III. Intermezzo (scales) -- Europe once more -- A summing-up -- America -- Technique and interpretation -- Reflections.;

520 a| "The year 1930 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Sergei Koussevitzky's career as an orchestral conductor and the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, of which he has been the distinguished and popular leader since 1924. This book by a Russian musical friend who has known him well for more than fifteen years is, however, no mere jubilee offering, but a charming and authoritative biography set against an informing and provocative chronicle of the musical life of Koussevitzky's time. This is as it should be in the case of one who has been perhaps the leading apostle of the music of his age, having been the first performer, and frequently the publisher, of important works by such composers as Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Copland, Honegger, Kodaly, and Bartok. Born in 1874, acknowledged at an early age to be one of the greatest virtuosi of all time on the double-bass, Koussevitzky turned to the orchestra when he felt that he had exhausted the possibilities of his solo instrument. In Berlin, Petrograd, Moscow, and nearly all the great cities of western Europe he won enormous success before he came to Boston. Here he has restored a great orchestra to its former splendor and has made himself a figure of major importance in the musical life of America."--Dust jacket.;

545 a| "Arthur Lourié was born in Leningrad in 1892 and educated at the university and conservatory of that city. He was in Russia at the time of the Kerensky revolution when Mr. Koussevitzky first saw him. With the success of the Bolshevist revolution, Mr. Lourié became a government official whose special work it as to maintain artistic relations between Russia and the rest of Europe. He appears to have done this with distinguished tact and diplomacy. In 1923 he left Russia and settled in Paris where he has since lived. Mr. Lourié is the composer of much modern music which has been heard at concerts in New York and the capitals of Europe. His Concerto Spirituale, composed for and performed by the Schola Cantorum in New York during 1930, won high praise from critics. He has been a friend of Mr. Koussevitzky for many years; his book is authoritative as well as interesting."--Dust jacket.;

600 10 a| Koussevitzky, Serge,d| 1874-1951.=| ^A68104;

700 1 a| Pring, Samuel William,e| translator.=| ^A1409362;

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Sergei Koussevitzky and his epoch : a biographical chronicle / by Arthur Lourié ; translated from the Russian by S. W. Pring.

Author/creator	Lourié, Arthur
Other author	Pring, Samuel William, translator.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Description	xiv, 253, v pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Subjects	Koussevitzky, Serge, 1874-1951.

Contents	Part I. A portrait -- Childhood -- Student years -- A serenade on the double-bass -- From double-bass to conductor's desk -- Berlin at the beginning of the twentieth century -- Part II. A glance at history -- The publishing venture -- Concerts (St. Petersburg, Moscow, and the Volga tour) -- The modernists -- From Tchaikovsky to Scriabin -- The war -- The revolution -- Part III. Intermezzo (scales) -- Europe once more -- A summing-up -- America -- Technique and interpretation -- Reflections.
Abstract	"The year 1930 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Sergei Koussevitzky's career as an orchestral conductor and the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, of which he has been the distinguished and popular leader since 1924. This book by a Russian musical friend who has known him well for more than fifteen years is, however, no mere jubilee offering, but a charming and authoritative biography set against an informing and provocative chronicle of the musical life of Koussevitzky's time. This is as it should be in the case of one who has been perhaps the leading apostle of the music of his age, having been the first performer, and frequently the publisher, of important works by such composers as Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Copland, Honegger, Kodaly, and Bartok. Born in 1874, acknowledged at an early age to be one of the greatest virtuosi of all time on the double-bass, Koussevitzky turned to the orchestra when he felt that he had exhausted the possibilities of his solo instrument. In Berlin, Petrograd, Moscow, and nearly all the great cities of western Europe he won enormous success before he came to Boston. Here he has restored a great orchestra to its former splendor and has made himself a figure of major importance in the musical life of America."--Dust jacket.
Biographical note	"Arthur Lourié was born in Leningrad in 1892 and educated at the university and conservatory of that city. He was in Russia at the time of the Kerensky revolution when Mr. Koussevitzky first saw him. With the success of the Bolshevist revolution, Mr. Lourié became a government official whose special work it as to maintain artistic relations between Russia and the rest of Europe. He appears to have done this with distinguished tact and diplomacy. In 1923 he left Russia and settled in Paris where he has since lived. Mr. Lourié is the composer of much modern music which has been heard at concerts in New York and the capitals of Europe. His Concerto Spirituale, composed for and performed by the Schola Cantorum in New York during 1930, won high praise from critics. He has been a friend of Mr. Koussevitzky for many years; his book is authoritative as well as interesting."--Dust jacket.

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