Research Catalog

Title

Stravinsky, selected correspondence / edited and with commentaries by Robert Craft.

Author

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.

Publication

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1982-1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

Craft, Robert

Description

3 volumes : illustrations, music, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

"This initial selection from the extraordinary lifetime of letters to and from Igor Stravinsky, annotated by his friend and associate Robert Craft, includes correspondence with W. H. Auden, Jean Cocteau, Lincoln Kirstein and other friends, as well as Stravinsky's letters to Nadia Boulanger, Ernest Ansermet, and Craft himself. The book presents a wealth of previously unpublished information about Stravinsky's relationships with other musicians, and about his methods of composition. The opening section, based on letters to Stravinsky from his first wife Catherine, is among the most important material yet made available for an understanding of the composer's personal and family life. If the exchanges with Auden (The Rake's Progress) and Cocteau (Oedipus Rex) take first place for general interest, the letters to Ansermet - who conducted more performances of Stravinsky's music than anyone but the composer himself - give a remarkable view of the musical and ballet worlds, especially of the Diaghilev period, and of the great impresario himself. This book, accompanied by two further volumes, is a major contribution to the Stravinsky canon and to the cultural history of the twentieth century."--whsmith.co.uk.

Uniform Title

Correspondence. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Correspondence.

Subject

• Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 > Correspondence
• Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
• Stravinsky, Igor
• Composers > Correspondence
• Composers
• Briefsammlung
• Componisten
• Composers > Biography

Genre/Form

• letters (correspondence)
• personal correspondence.
• Personal correspondence.
• Correspondance privée.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Volume I. Igor, Catherine, and God -- Correspondence with Maurice Delage: 1912-1923 -- Correspondence with V.V. Derzhanovsky: 1912-1914 -- Correspondence with Jean Cocteau: 1913-1962 -- Letters to Ernest Ansermet: 1914-1967 -- Letters to Nadia Boulanger: 1938-1964 -- Correspondence with Lincoln Kirstein: 1946-1966 -- Correspondence with W.H. Auden: 1947-1965 -- Letters to Robert Craft -- Appendix A. Family Documents -- Appendix B. Stravinsky's French citizenship -- Appendix C. Petrushka: revisions early and late -- Appendix D. Le Sacre du Printemps: a chronology of the revisions -- Appendix E. Three Pieces for String Quartet: the revisions -- Appendix F. "Lied ohne Name" -- Appendix G. Easy pieces -- Appendix H. Renard: Sketch for an instrumental version; the piano transcription of the Cimbalom part; Stravinsky's revisions -- Appendix I. "Sektanskaya" -- Appendix J. Stravinsky, Stokowski, and Madame Incognito -- Appendix K. Text of the brochure "The tomb of F.I. Stravinsky" -- Appendix L. The manuscript of the Larguette concertante --
• Volume II. Correspondence with Serge de Diaghilev: 1911-1928 -- Letters from Vaslav Nijinsky: 1913 -- Correspondence with Pierre Monteux: 1912-1957 -- Letters from Émile Jaques-Dalcroze: 1913-1918 -- Correspondence with Léon Bakst: 1912-1917 -- Correspondence with M.D. Calvocoressi: 1912-1914 -- Correspondence with Florent Schmitt: 1911-1921 -- Correspondence with Edwin Evans: 1913-1937 -- Correspondence with Alfredo Casella: 1913-1934 -- Correspondence with Gerald Tyrwhitt (Lord Berners): 1916-1939 -- Correspondence with Manuel de Falla: 1916-1945 -- Letters from Jaques Rivière: 1914-1919 -- Correspondence with Eugenia Errazuriz and Blaise Cendarars: 1917-1932 -- A letter from Francis Picabia: 1922 -- The Nightingale in Russia: Correspondence with Sanine, Struve, and Siloti -- Firebird: a publishing history in correspondence -- Correspondence with G.P. Beliankin: the composer as moneylender, mortgagee, landowner, vodka distiller -- "Dear Samsky": Stravinsky and Samuel Dushkin -- Cocteau, Balanchine, and Jeu de Cartes -- Correspondence with Ernst Krenek: 1952-1967 -- Letters to Pierre Boulez: 1957-1963 -- Letters to Nicolas Nabokov: 1929-1967 -- Appendixes. Stravinsky at the Musee d'Art Moderne ; On premieres of Le Sacre du Printemps ; The first scenario of The Nightingale and some letters from S.S. Mitussov ; On the piano-rag music ; On the symphonies of wind instruments ; On the chronologies of the composition of the octet, serenade, and concerto per due pianoforti soli ; On the chronology of the Requiem Canticles ; The Firmin Gémier affair ; "Chantage de mon secrétaire Alexis Sabline, 1925" ; Stravinsky and the Institut de France ; Walter Nouvel and Chroniques de ma vie ; Roland-Manuel and La Poetique musicale --
• Volume III. Correspondence with Claude and Emma Debussy: 1912-1918 -- Correspondence with Erik Satie: 1912-1923 -- Correspondence with Maurice Ravel: 1913-1923 -- Correspondence with C.-F. Ramuz: 1915-1937 -- Correspondence with C.-A. Cingria: 1917-1952 -- Letters from Jacuqes Handschin: 1931-1933 -- Correspondence with Werner Reinhart: 1918-1938 -- Correspondence with André Gide: 1917-1938 -- Correspondence with Paul Claudel: 1938 -- A letter from Albert Camus: 1952 -- Correspondence with Francis Poulenc: 1917-1962 -- Excerpts from Stravinsky's letters to B. Schotts Söhne: 1928-1939 -- Excerpts from Stravinsky's letters to associated music publishers: 1940-1947 -- Excerpts from Stravinsky's letters to Boosey & Hawkes: 1946-1968 -- Appendixes. Histoire du soldat: the musical revisions, the sketches, and the evolution of the libretto ; Perséphone: The evolution of the libretto ; The Rake's Progress: The evolution of the libretto and the sketches ; The Stravinsky Nachlass in New York and Basel.

ISBN

• 0394518705
• 9780394518701
• 0394528131
• 9780394528137
• 0394542207
• 9780394542201

LCCN

81047495

OCLC

• ocm07775631
• 7775631
• SCSB-14520879

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library