Albert Gleizes
MoMa, NY City, USA
He was also one of the central figures in cultural life in Europe and the rest of the world.
To understand the man and the impact he made, it is very useful to read some of the biographies, written about him, and the many books, which he wrote with the help of Robert Craft. (Or, rather visa versa)
Following is an inventory of some of the books , I have collected and read (at least, tried to!).
A Family Album
Theodore Stravinsky
1974 Boosey and Hawkes
Photographic record of Stravinsky's
early life.
Read also the letter, which Th. S.
wrote to the NY Review of Books
and a reply by Robert Craft
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/
archives/ 1974/may/02/stravinsky/
?pagination=false)
In Pictures and Documents
Vera Stravinsky - Robert Craft
1978 Simon & Schuster
Beautiful biography, comprehensive and with unique photo's.
Richard Tarushkin
1996 UC Press
The No 1 study of Stravinsky's works up to Mavra.
Taruskin could study Russian sources.
2 Volumes, 1800 pages
A Creative Spring - The Final Chapter
Stephen Walsh
2000 - 2006 UC Press
Extensive biography. Written by a critical mind. Reads like a cliffhanger.
Louis Andriessen
Elmer Schoenberger
1982 Amsterdam University Press
Highly regarded study by two dutch composers / musicologists.
Dutch edition is out of print.
Sein Nachlass. Sein Bild.
Chr. Geelhaar. Hans Joerg Jans.
1984 Paul Sacher Stiftung
Documentation of the Stravinsky inheritance.
Many unique photo's.
Conversations with Stravinsky (1959)
Memories and Commentaries (1960)
Expositions and Developments (1962)
Dialogues and a Diary (1963)
Themes and Episodes (1966)
Retrospectives and Conclusions (1970)
Themes and Conclusions (1972)
in the form of six lessons
Basically written by Stravinsky, but with assistance of many (french) colleagues.
1956 Vantage Books.
Originally a set of 6 lectures, which
Stravinsky gave at the Harvard University.
Written in stilted french and translated
into the a kind of english, which is no
longer taught at school.
The cronical of a friendship.
Robert Craft
1972 MW Books
Large portions of Craft's dairies.
Covers the 1948-1971 period, when he was Stravinsky's assistent.
An Autobiography
Igor Stravinsky
1962 Norton & Co
English translation of Chroniques de ma vie
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
1962 Chester
Stravinsky wrote his own blurb
anno 1921
In English and French
Mrs. R.D. Graff
Mrs A.A. Houghton
1963 NY Public Library
Companion to Stravinsky and the Dance. Published on the occasion of an exhibition for Stravinsky's 80th birthday.
Victor Borovsky
1982 Stainer & Bell
An inventory of Stravinsky's
stage works and it's performances
Mrs. R.D. Graff
Mrs A.A. Houghton
1963 NY Public Library
Companion to Stravinsky and the Theatre. Published on the occasion of an exhibition for Stravinsky's 80th birthday.
Igor Stravinsky
Paul Griffith
1993 Schirmer Books
This study surveys Stravinsky's vastly variegated life and output
in one chronological sweep.
Igor Stravinsky
Michael Oliver
1995 Phaidon Press
This book traces the influences that formed Stravinsky, setting all his major works in context.
It pays attention to his childhood in pre-Revolutionary Russia, whose formative influence was acknowledged later in life.
Igor Stravinsky
Francis Routh
1975 JM Dent & Sons
Francis Routh (1927) is a English composer / writer.
How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg
Meredith Oakes
2011 Oberon Books
Oakes examines the influence of Stravinsky and how the musical path he took changed the future of music for everyone.
John Bowlt
1995 Princeton UP
Vera's scrapbook before she met Igor Stravinsky
Roman Vlad
1971 Oxford University Press
Biography by Ukrainian/Italian composer.
Translated from Italian
Seen and Heard
Hans Keller Milein Cosman
1982 Toccata Press
Mainly about Stravinsky's switch to 12 tone composing
Pendrawings by Milein Cosman
Illustrated Lives of the
Great Composers
Neil Wenborn
2000 Omnibus Press
Illustrated biography which
places Stravinsky in the era
he lived in, by means of letters, recollections and illustrations
Arnold Newman
Robert Craft
1967 World Publ. Company
Beautiful photo-essay
by famous photographer
Arnold Newman
Robert Siohan
1966 Calderbooks
Biography by the french conductor and composer.
Nice illustrations and a discography, relevant for the early LP (stereo)records.
Translated by Eric Walter White.
Andre Boucourechliev
1987 Gollancz
Org. titel :
Les indispensables de la musique
Translated by Martin Cooper
A Critical Survey
1947 Lehman
The Composer and
his Works 2nd Edition
1979 Faber & Faber
Chronological lists of Stravinsky's works and analysis.
Stravinsky's Last Years
Lillian Libman
1972 W.W. Norton & Co.
Her personal memories of Stravinsky during the last 12 years of his life.
Mikhail Druskin
1983 Cambridge UP
The first study from behind the
then Iron Curtain.
Craft has reservations:
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/
docs/issues/82dec/craft82.htm
Sjeng Scheijen
2010 Oxford University Press
Focused on the man and his legacy: Ballet Russe.
In order to understand Stravinsky , this is an important book.
Translatied from the Dutch orignal.
Robert Craft
1977 Random House
Craft's view on matters of all sorts.
As if to prove that there was a life
outside the Stravinsky sphere.
Glimses of a Life
Robert Craft
1992 Lime Tree
Craft's afterthoughts on his relation with Stravinsky.
And a great deal of thought on The Rite.
Marius Monnikendam
1958 Gottmer
Part of an extensive serie of Composer Portraits.
Monnikendam was composer and music critic.
Editor: Elmer Schoenberger
Documentation of a 1987-1988 series of eight concerts around Igor Stravinsky played at VARA's Saturday matinee concerts.
Classic Chic: Music, Fashion and Modernisme
Mary E Davis
2010 - 2008 University of California Press
Mary E Davis has a unique and very interesting look on music.
By approaching classical music from the fashion world new viewpoints are explored.
Her books are very readable. And she advises the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. WHOW!
Roland Vernon
1997 Belitha Press
Introduction for use in schools.
32 pages
Modern Music Masters
Bartok Stravinsky, Hindemith
Vera Lampert
1984 Macmillan Publishers
Igor Stravinsky, his life from his upbringing in prerevolutionary Russia, through the intellectual crucible that was the Paris of the 1920s, to his final years in Los Angeles and New York .
Paul Horgan
1972 Bodley Head
Account of a personal
friendship, during
Stravinsky's later years
Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft
1981,1984,1985 Faber & Faber
Stravinsky's correspondence selected by Robert Craft in 3 volumes
Apart from special biographies and studies, I use a great deal of general reference musical history books and dictionairies, as well as the internet.
Richard Taruskin's The Oxford History of Western Music (2009 paperback 5 parts) is probably this best around.
The earliest reference books I bought was the four part Muziek door de eeuwen (1963 Broekmans en Van Poppel) by Drs. Kloppenburg.
The LP part of my collection has been purchased with amongst others these books as a guide.
