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

Author/creator Stravinsky, Igor
Other author Craft, Robert editor.
Format Book
Edition1st American edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1982-1985.
Description3 volumes : illustrations, music, portraits ; 25 cm
Subjects
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Correspondence.
Composers--Correspondence.

Uniform titleCorrespondence. Selections. English
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.
Contents Volume II. Correspondence with Serge de Diaghilev: 1911-1928 -- Letters from Vaslav Nijinsky: 1913 -- Correspondence with Pierre Monteux: 1912-1957 -- Letters from Emile Jaques-Dalcroze: 1913-1918 -- Correspondence with Leon 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 Riviere: 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 Gemier affair ; "Chantage de mon secretaire Alexis Sabline, 1925" ; Stravinsky and the Institut de France ; Walter Nouvel and Chroniques de ma vie ; Roland-Manuel and La Poetique musicale.
Contents 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 Andre 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 Sohne: 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 ; Persephone: 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 81047495
ISBN0394518705 (v. 1)

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