Gathers the modern Russian composer's letters, from different periods in his career, to friends, poets, and fellow composers

Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence (2 Volumes)

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert Craft

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Arts & Literature

KNOPF

The conversations between Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft are unique in musical history.' Sunday Times Expositions and Developments is the third in the legendary series of Stravinsky's conversations with Robert Craft. In this volume Stravinsky delves deep into his memory and brings to light, in the most absorbing detail, reminiscences of his childhood, youth and early manhood in Russia. A most remarkable evocation of St Petersburg, the city that the composer still loves best, forms part of the earlier, 'expository' section of the book. In his 'developments', Stravinsky moves outside Russia and unfolds a wealth of information and racy anecdote, most of which has a direct bearing on his music. The extensive chronological sweep of these conversations embraces not only a vivid account of how the Rite of Spring was composed and first performed but also his first thoughts about The Flood, one of his most recent works. This unique series of memories offers not only indispensable documentation but also exceptional literary distinction, and is essential reading for all students and lovers of Stravinsky.

Expositions and Developments

University of California Press

An authoritative account of the composer's life, compiled by his second wife and by Robert Craft, his friend and associate for twenty-five years. The volume is divided into three sections: the Russian and Swiss years, the two decades in France between the World Wars, and the final thirty-two years in America. A fourth part, the Appendix, contains supplementary essays, and a critical bibliography of studies of Stravinsky published after his death. Well illustrated throughout. Jacket chipped. 688 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. small 4to..

Stravinsky

Vera Stravinsky

Simon&Schuster

Robert Craft was assistant, companion and confidant to Igor Stravinsky for the last two decades of the composer's life, an intimate working relationship that is unique in musical history. Now, in his 90th year, Craft has produced a book of astonishing freshness, warmth and wit as he surveys through the lens of his own distinctive position Stravinsky's relationships with others - from family members to fellow composers to some of the greatest writers, philosophers, politicians and artists of the time.
 Craft has written often of this period, but in Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories, he explores areas of the composer's life that he has never before touched upon. Peppered with delightful anecdotes, it is at times revelatory, showing sides of Stravinsky that only now Craft feels able to consider.
 The years have given Robert Craft a balanced view of the composer he knew so well. Not only was he present at important meetings, rehearsals and premieres as well as numerous dinners and parties, he was also there when Stravinsky reminisced about the early years; the composer trusted him and gave him unique access to his archives.
 In the centenary year of the notorious Paris premiere of The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories presents a vivid picture of one of the greatest composers in living memory.

Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories

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Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence (2 Volumes)

Expositions and Developments

Stravinsky

Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories