At the centre of this third and final volume of letters to and
from Igor Stravinsky is four decades of the composer's
correspondence with his publishers. Stravinsky's letters to Schotts
cover the years 1928-39 and the publication of the Violin Concerto,
the "Concerto per due pianoforte soli," "Jeu de Cartes," the
Concerto in E flat, and the Symphony in C.
His letters to Associated Music Publishers span the years
1940-7, while twenty-two years of correspondence with Boosey &
Hawkes reveals much about the development of Stravinsky's works in
progress, the performances of his music, and his projects and
plans. These letters offer fascinating glimpses into his daily life
- musical and otherwise - clearly exhibiting his meticulousness,
his immense vitality, and his unbounded creativity.
Here also is Stravinsky's correspondence with Debussy, Satie,
Ravel and Poulenc, and with literary collaborators, C. F. Ramuz
(Histoire du Soldat), and Andre Gide (Persephone). The
correspondence with Charles-Albert Cingria, one of Stravinsky's
closest friends, shows how the composer was influenced by Cingria's
views on art, literature, and religion, while the letters from
musicologist and organist, Jacques Handschin (the only Russian
contemporary of Stravinsky's who was an influence on him in later
life), contain the sole published reference to the possibility that
before the Russian Revolution, Stravinsky may have been
'leftist-minded'.
A fascinating collection on its own, this volume joins the first
two to form an essential document in the history of
twentieth-century music.
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