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Igor Stravinsky : an autobiography / Igor Stravinsky.

By: Language: engfre Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Norton, 1998.Description: 176 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780393318562
  • 0393318567 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML410.S932 A22 1998
Summary: While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this book?the composer's first?we hear from the man himself. An Autobiography chronicles the first half-century of Stravinsky's life, all the while offering his opinions and "abhorrences." A Parsifal performance at Bayreuth? "At the end of a quarter of an hour I could bear no more." Nijinsky? "The poor boy knew nothing of music." Spanish folk music? "Endless preliminary chords of guitar playing." -- Jacket
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks ML410.S932 A22 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001092401

Translation of Chroniques de ma vie.

"First published as a Norton paperback 1962; reissued 1998."

Originally published: Simon & Schuster, c1936.

While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this book?the composer's first?we hear from the man himself. An Autobiography chronicles the first half-century of Stravinsky's life, all the while offering his opinions and "abhorrences." A Parsifal performance at Bayreuth? "At the end of a quarter of an hour I could bear no more." Nijinsky? "The poor boy knew nothing of music." Spanish folk music? "Endless preliminary chords of guitar playing." -- Jacket

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