Bøger af Robert Craft

First published in 1972, this highly-acclaimed biography of one of the century's greatest composers now features nearly twice as many illustrations and one-third more text. Based on Craft's 25-year diary of his friendship with Stravinsky.

Collects together a number of the author's programme notes about his own works, among them the "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" and "Jeu de Carte". This title includes waspish letters to the press, wide-ranging interviews, prefaces and reviews, and a section entitled 'Squibs'.

'The conversations between Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft are unique in musical history.' Sunday TimesDialogues is the fourth volume in the legendary series of Stravinsky's conversations with Robert Craft.

Features letters to and from Igor Stravinsky, the composer's correspondence with his publishers, that 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". These letters offer glimpses into his daily life.

Presents Igor Stravinsky's correspondence. This book offers information relating to the composer's association with dance, to his relationship with other composers and musicians, and to the daily, financial, and familial concerns of his life.

Presents a selection of letters to and from Igor Stravinsky. This book provides information about Stravinsky's relationships with other musicians, and about his methods of composition. Based on letters to Stravinsky from his first wife Catherine, it helps in an understanding of the composer's personal and family life.

'The conversations between Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft are unique in musical history.' Sunday TimesExpositions and Developments is the third in the legendary series of Stravinsky's conversations with Robert Craft.

'The conversations between Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft are unique in musical history.' Sunday TimesThe contents of the celebrated series of Conversations, dating from the last fifteen years of Stravinsky's life, were taken down by Robert Craft in informal talks with the composer.

Conversations with Igor Stravinsky is the first of the celebrated series of conversation books in which Stravinsky, prompted by Robert Craft, reviewed his long and remarkable life. The composer brings the Imperial Russia of his childhood vividly into focus, at the same time scanning what were at the time the brave new horizons of Boulez and Stockhausen with extraordinary acuity.Stravinsky answers searching questions about his musical development and recalls his association with Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet. There are sympathetic and extraordinarily illuminating reminiscences of such composers as Debussy and Ravel ('the only musicians who immediately understood Le Sacre du Printemps'), while mischievous squibs are directed at others, most notably perhaps against Richard Strauss, all of whose operas Stravinsky wished 'to admit ... to whichever purgatory punishes triumphant banality'.The conversations are by no means confined to musical subjects, ranging uninhibitedly across all the arts: Stravinsky gives unforgettable sketches of Ibsen, Rodin, Proust, Giacometti, Dylan Thomas and T S Eliot.'The conversations between Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft are unique in musical history. The penetration of Craft's questions and the patience and detail of Stravinsky's answers combine to produce an intimate picture of a man who has sometimes puzzled, often delighted, and always intrigued ...' The Sunday Times