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Pousseur's ‘L’Effacement du Prince Igor'

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Dick Witts
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In 1974 Henri Pousseur created a large-scale homage/critique of Schoenberg, The Trials of Peter the Hebrew. That other mandarin Stravinsky has received two testimonials, a collaborative piece called Stravinsky au futur, and L'effacement du Prince Igor—The Obliteration of Prince Igor. All of Pousseur's resonant titles contain so many associations—here the Russian lineage, the Stalinist embargo, the social position (not King of the Stars?), the aristocratic conceit, the alleged erosion of personality.

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Tempo , Issue 122 , September 1977 , pp. 10 - 17
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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References

page 10 note 1 Die Erprobung des Petrus Hebraicus, a ‘chamber-music action’ for speaker, soloists, ensemble and tape, composed for the 1974 Festival, Berlin. See Contact No. 13 (Spring 1976) pp. 13–22Google Scholar and No. 16 (Spring 1977) PP. 27–28.

page 10 note 2 The first performance took place in 06 1971, by the Belgian National Orchestra conducted by Gielen, MichaelGoogle Scholar.

page 10 note 3 Perspectives of New Music vol. 10 no. 2 (Spring–Summer 1972) p. 16, trans. Clements, MarcelleGoogle Scholar.

page 11 note 1 See Riasanovsky, Nicholas V.: The teaching of Charles Fourier. (Los Angeles: University of California Press 1969)Google Scholar.

page 16 note 1 For an important article on interval cycles in the work of Stravinsky, Berg and Bartók, see Perle, George, ‘Berg's master-array of interval cycles’ in Musical Quarterly Vol. LXIII, No. 122, pp. 1–30 (01 1977)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

page 17 note 1 At a lecture given in the music studio at Nottingham University 8 March 1977.