Neoclassicism in Music: From the Genesis of the Concept through the Schoenberg/Stravinsky Polemic

This historical and critical study of neoclassicism in music, covers the genesis of the concept in France in the 1870s through to the Schoenberg/Stravinsky polemic. It provides a broad cultural context for the investigation of its origins and then looks in turn at Wagner and the French reaction to him; Saint-Saens, d'Indy, Debussy, Ravel and their French conteporaries; Germany and France in the decade which includes the World War I, with special reference to Thomas Mann and Ferrucio Busoni, and to Jean Cocteau and the New Simplicity ; and Igor Stravinsky, the composer most frequently cited in connection with this term.