Memories and commentaries / Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft
1960, First Edition. London : Faber Music in association with Faber. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #469795
Physical description; 183p ill 21 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; 1. Autobiographical : A Russian education -- Diaghilev and his dancers -- Some Russian composers: Rimsky-Korsakov ; Cui ; Arensky ; Taneyev ; Liadov ; Scriabin ; Prokofiev -- 2. Portraits mé moires : Valéry ; Rolland ; Falla ; Hahn ; Gorodetsky and Balmont ; Berners ; Royauté -- 3. Some musical questions -- 4. Three operas : The Nightingale (letters from Alexander Benois) ; Persephone (letters from Andre Gide) ; The rake's progress (letters from W.H. Auden) -- 5. Appendix : First scenario for The rake's progress. Subjects; Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971. Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971 ; Interviews. Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971 Criticism and interpretation. 1900-1999. Composers ; Interviews.
Price: €48.00