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From:
Daniel Wolf <djwolf@snafu.de>
To:
Subject: Nicholas Nabokov
Nicholas (Nikolaj) Nabokov (*17.4.03 Lubscha
(Minsk) +6.4.78 New York) was a
naturalized American composer of minor talent
and cousin of the writer. He
studied with Rebikoff in Moscow and Busoni in
Berlin. His music was generally
neo-classical, reflecting his strong affinity for
Stravinsky. In 1945, largely on the
basis of his linguistic skills, he was assigned to
the US Army of Occupation in
Germany, where he took the first of a long series
of positions advising American
authorities on cultural affairs and political
policy. He was largely responsible for
rebuilding the cultural life in West Berlin. From
1952-63, as general secretary of the
C.I.A.-connected Congress for Cultural
Freedom, he was a chief agent of cold
war cultural policy in Europe, which
continued from 1963-68 in his role as
director of the Berliner
Festwochen.
He was personally close to Igor and Vera Stravinsky (see
Stravinsky,
_Selected Correspondence_ Vol. II) who took great concern with
Nabokov's
choices for wives. Stravinsky, whose work featured strongly in
Nabokov's
Berlin concerts, called N.N. "the culture
generalissimo".
Daniel Wolf
http://home.snafu.de/djwolf/
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From: Donald Barton Johnson <chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu>
To:
<NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Sent:
Sunday, March 19, 2000 6:08 PM
Subject: Nikolai Nabokov : A Query
(fwd)
> In conversations/commentary about Russian music one often
comes across the
> name Nikolai Nabokov. Is he a relative of VN? He is
quoted for example in
> "The New Shostakovich" and in quite a
few commentaries on Stravinsky.
>
>
Cheers!
>
yours
>
Kiran
>
> "Anything goes in Quantum
Mechanics."
>
-Prof. David McKenzie