Funeral Games - Un livre important sur Arthur Lourié

Un livre important, de teneur scientifique, sur le musicien russe Arthur Lourié, ami des Maritain, avec les données les plus récentes concernant la biographie et l'oeuvre du compositeur.

Funeral Games in honor of Arthur Vincent Lourié, edited by Klara Moricz and Simon Morrisson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, IX- 303 p.

"This most important Lourié publication since 1993 will open the gate to a new biography. I highly recommend it to all musicians willing to perform and record the unique music of Russia's fascinating 20th century Orpheus."

Stefan Hulliger, President Arthur Lourié Society, Basel/Switzerland

"For all the untimeliness of its hero, the perpetual émigré Arthur Lourié, Funeral Games is one timely volume. It brings together a stellar constellation of scholars to illuminate through the reflected light of Lourié's complex engagements with acmeism, neoclassicism, Eurasianism, neo-Thomism, as well as a number of musical luminaries-more than a few dark corners of modernist history and esthetics."

Anna Nisnevich, University of Pittsburgh

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

A Note on Transliteration ix

Introduction: Endgames and Funeral Games 1

Klára Móricz

1. Arthur Lourié: A Biographical Sketch 28

Olesya Bobrik, Translated by Klára Móricz and Simon Morrison

2. Turania Revisited, with Lourié My Guide 63

Richard Taruskin

3. Koussevitzky's Ghostwriter 121

Simon Morrison