Nicolas Nabokov - Giroud, Vincent (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The University of Franche-Comti, New York, NY)

This first biography of Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) reevaluates the role of the Russian-born American composer as a postwar cultural force, notably as secretary general of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the 1950s and 1960s, and the contribution to twentieth-century music of this collaborator of Diaghilev, Stravinsky, and Balanchine.