Stravinsky : glimpses of a life / Robert Craft
1992, First Edition. London : Lime Tree. Facimile edition of 1901 text. Folding maps and frontispiece included; title page is not present. Near fine copy in gilt-blocked leatherette. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains very well preserved overall. Item #469690
ISBN: 0413454614
Physical description; xv, 381 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Part one. Life in America. A centenary view ; Encounter and metamorphosis ; Influence or assistance? ; Stravinsky and Dylan Thomas ; Conversations with Stravinsky -- Part two. Life in France. Stravinsky, Stokowski and Madame Incognito ; La poétique musicale -- Sufferings and humiliations of Catherine Stravinsky ; Cher père, chère Véra -- Part three. The rite of spring. Genesis of a masterpiece ; The premieres ; The rite at sixty-five ; The rite at seventy-five -- Part four. Perspectives. Nicolai Andreyevich and Igor Fyodorovich ; Stravinsky and Asaf'yev ; Celestial motions ; The relevance and problems of biography ; Pluralistic Stravinsky ; Stravinsky at the Musée d'Art Moderne ; The Stravinsky Nachlass in New York and Basel -- Part five. Music. Svadebka : an introduction ; Histoire du soldat : musical origins, second thoughts ; 'Hymns of praise' for Debussy : Stravinsky's 'Symphonies of winds'. Subjects; Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971. Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971 Criticism and interpretation. Composers Soviet Union ; Biography. Composers United States ; Biography. Compositeurs URSS ; Biographies. Composers. Composers 20th century Biography. Composers ; Biography.
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