Download or read book Nicolas Nabokov written by Vincent Giroud and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.