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Author Laura E. Kennedy examines the three ballets composed by Dmitri Shostakovich during the early Stalinist period, showing how he aimed to create Soviet ballet until his third ballet was condemned in 1936, when he subsequently abandoned the genre. Throughout the book, she draws on extensive archival materials from St. Petersburg and Moscow--many not previously published--and argues that the three ballets illuminate his interest in the genre, the creative resources available to him, and the artistic and political pressures under which he worked.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Names and Transliteration
- List of Archives
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "Art without movement does not move me": Shostakovich and the Path to Ballet
- Chapter 2. Petipa's Legacy: The Golden Age and Classical Ballet
- Chapter 3. Amateur Dramatics: The Bolt and Modern Ballet
- Chapter 4. Soviet Sylphs: The Limpid Stream and Romantic Ballet
- Chapter 5. Shostakovich and Ballet: Lives and Afterlives
- Appendix A: Chart I: The Golden Age, Act I, scene 1 in two scenarios
- Appendix B: Librettos
- Bibliography
- Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Laura E. Kennedy is a scholar of Russian music and ballet and a specialist on Dmitri Shostakovich. She has travelled and researched extensively in Russia. With a Ph.D. in historical musicology from the University of Michigan, she has held the Charles Ezra Daniel Associate Professorship at Furman University and is currently Head of Music at Blanchelande College. She lives in Great Britain.
