Memories and Commentaries: New One-Volume Edition Compiled and Edited by Robert Craft

Craft, Robert,Stravinsky, Igor

ISBN 10: 0571212425 / ISBN 13: 9780571212422

Published by Faber & Faber, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memories and Commentaries: New One-Volume Edition Compiled and Edited by Robert Craft
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571212425
• ISBN 13: 9780571212422
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

For the first time in one volume--the celebrated Stravinsky and Craft Conversations

Few would dispute that Igor Stravinsky was the greatest composer of the twentieth century. Conductor and writer Robert Craft was his closest colleague and friend, and for over twenty-one years he lived with the Stravinskys in their Hollywood home. In the early 1950s he accompanied the composer on his concert tours, and from the mid-1950s to Stravinsky's death in 1971 he co-conducted his concerts. Together Stravinsky and Craft published five acclaimed collections known as the Conversations series, which sprung from informal talks between the two men.
In this newly edited and re-structured one-volume version, Craft brings Stravinsky's reflections on his childhood, his family life, professional associates, and personal relationships into sharper focus and places the major compositions in their cultural milieux. The Conversations books are the only published writing attributed to Stravinsky that are actually "by him" in terms of fidelity to his thoughts and opinions, making this volume required reading for all fans and students of Stravinsky's music.

About the Author

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) is perhaps best known for his revolutionary ballet Le Sacre du printemps.

Robert Craft, the author of more than a dozen books on Stravinsky, continues to write about the composer and conduct his music on recordings.