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Unfolding the Fan of Memory in Arthur Lourié’s Recollection of Petersburg

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2019

DAVID SALKOWSKI
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Abstract

This article demonstrates how migration formed a process of memory construction in the work and thought of Russian émigré composer Arthur Lourié (1891–1966). It analyses Lourié’s song cycle Recollection of Petersburg, composed over two decades and across four countries, providing close readings of music and poetry and exploring the network of intertextual connections the cycle activates. Lourié has proven a difficult subject because of the diversity of aesthetic positions he took from decade to decade. Recollection allows us to trace a line of continuity as he passed through these incarnations, revealing an aesthetics of accumulation and arrangement with origins in Acmeist poetics. This aesthetics, in turn, served as a coping strategy for Lourié’s life in emigration, as he sought to order the voices of memory and escape the flow of time. Lourié’s case will contribute to our understanding of the profound impact of migration on music in the twentieth century.

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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 2019 , pp. 289 - 317
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press, 2019 

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Footnotes

I am grateful to Simon Morrison, Caryl Emerson, Olga Hasty, Malavika Rajeev, and the anonymous reviewers of this journal for providing invaluable feedback on various drafts of this article. I wish to thank Michael Wachtel for his help with translations and numerous poetic insights. Angela Ida De Benedictis and Evelyne Diendorf of the Paul Sacher Foundation and Bob Kosovsky of the New York Public Library provided generous help with archival materials, for which I am also grateful.

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