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1990Best.-Nr. 2206180417047Sony / CBS 1990-10-25. Audio CD. Like New. CD plays perfectly & the case looks good. Sony / CBS unknown
2009Best.-Nr. 2209180421020HARMONIA MUNDI 2009-10-13. Audio CD. Like New. CD plays perfectly & the case looks good. HARMONIA MUNDI unknown
1979Best.-Nr. 311994BOSTON: DAVID R. GODINE. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. 0879232641 . INSCRIBED by Vera Stravinsky to Miranda Levy wife of veteran television director Ralph Levy on first blank. Fine in very close to fine dust jacket. Small nick in jacket. 25 Color plates. Vera Stavinsky was the wife of composer Igor Stravinsky. LR . DAVID R. GODINE. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 14740NY DUELL 1949. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. NY, DUELL, 1949 unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 168684New York: Time Magazine 1960. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Reproduces the script of a 1960 documentary film about contemporary art focusing on de Kooning Stravinsky and Fuller along with "Time" articles relating to same. Robert Snyder and Michael Sonnabend previously collaborated on the 1950 documentary "The Titan." Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers with French flaps. Time Magazine unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 170239New York: Perls Galleries 1940. Vintage bi-fold catalog brochure for the January 8 to February 2 1940 exhibition at Perls Galleries New York. 6 x 9.25 inches Bi-fold. Very Good plus with light silverfish damage to the surface of the upper left and bottom right of the front panel. Perls Galleries unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 208861London: Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers 1980. Softcover. 60 pages. Features text by Auden and Kallman and music by Stravinsky. A very good copy in stapled wrappers that are very slightly soiled and with a former owner signature to the title page and a handwritten note to the verso of the rear cover. Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 150933N.p.: PBS 1983. Vintage reference publicity photograph of noted ballerina Vera Zorina in three separate poses from the 1983 television episode originally aired on February 14 on PBS. With a descriptive promo sheet affixed to the verso as issued. This episode of "Great Performances" featured dancers performing three pieces choreographed by George Balanchine to the works of composer Igor Stravinsky. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. PBS unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 41313Berlin Moscou St. Pétersbourg .: Édition Russe de Musique PN R.M.V. 127 1912. Folio. Newly bound in quarter dark green cloth with mid-brown paper boards dark red title label gilt to upper and spine. 1f. recto title verso blank i named cast list ii synopsis i orchestration i recto dedication "À Alexandre Benois" verso blank 7-156 pp. 1f. errata tipped in to rear pastedown. With text in Russian and French. Named cast for the first performance by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris on 13 June 1911 includes Tamar Karsavina Le Ballerine Vaslav Nijinsky Petrushka Orlow Le Maure and Enrico Ceccheti Le vieux Charlatan; the performance was conducted by Monteux with maître du ballet Fokine and sets and costumes designed by Benois and executed by Anisfeld sets and Caffi and Worobiew costumes. Small area of faint dampstaining and minor cockling to upper inner margins. An attractive copy. First Edition first issue. Rare. Kirchmeyer 12-1. Hirsch II 905. De Lerma P15. White p. 193. Crawford p. 533. "The emergence of Stravinsky as a modernist with an individual manner unlike any other can be dated with some precision to his early work on Petrushka. In March 1910 during the later stages of composing The Firebird he had experienced the famous 'fleeting vision' out of which The Rite of Spring was to grow. But when Diaghilev and Nijinsky visited him in Lausanne in September 1910 they found him at work on something quite different a concert piece for piano and orchestra called 'Petrushka's Cry'. Together with a 'Russian Dance' composed soon afterwards this music was to form the basis of the ballet which Diaghilev instinctively urged him to write instead. . It is from the systematic attempt to render the particular flavour of traditional Russian life into music that Petrushka derives many of its freshest and most original qualities. . Looked at in general terms the opening sequence of Petrushka is a prototype of later Stravinskian form. Its underlying rhythmic design may not be complex in the same way as that of The Rite of Spring or the later Russian works but its intricacy of rhythmic detailing and its mixture of a highly fluid pattern of melodic stress with an inert background harmony laid the groundwork for a technique which through many changes of superficial style was to serve him for the rest of his life." Walsh: The Music of Stravinsky pp. 24-29. "Petroushka proved just as successful with the public and critics as The Firebird had been; but it was undoubtedly a more original work. In the first place Stravinsky had been able to play a leading part in the construction of the scenario which had not been the case with The Firebird. Secondly whereas the music of The Firebird showed that the pupil had learnt all that his master had had to teach him in Petrushka for the first time the authentic voice of the new master is heard." TNG Vol. 18 pp. 244-245. The rare first edition first issue of Stravinsky's colorful and well-loved ballet inspired by the St. Petersburg Shrove-tide Fair. Édition Russe de Musique [PN R.M.V. 127] unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 45960London: Faber and Faber 1960. First edition. Very good in very good jacket. First printing of this collection of conversations with the iconic composer inscribed in the year of publication to his well-connected friends Miranda and Ralph Levy. Igor Stravinsky's storied career spanned from Russia to France and finally to the US where his innovative style caused ripples throughout the music world. MEMORIES AND COMMENTARIES finds the composer reflecting on his many influences friends and colleagues and was compiled with the help of his frequent collaborator and confidant Robert Craft. This copy features an inscription from Stravinsky to "Ralph and Miranda Levy" a television pioneer and well-known jewelry designer respectively. Miranda Levy was noted in her obituary as "the woman who jump-started the Santa Fe Opera" by introducing its founding director to Stravinsky Roberts. Stravinsky supervised the opera house's opening production of his "A Rake's Progress" in 1957 and subsequently returned to Santa Fe every summer after that until 1963. A warm association between arguably the 20th century's most important composer and two significant supporters. 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth binding. Original unclipped 25s pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white frontispiece with 21 black-and-white illustrations. 184 pages including index. Inscribed by Stravinsky "To Ralph and Miranda" Levy dated November 1960 in Rome. With the Levy's subsequent gift inscription below. Jacket with light edgewear slight chipping to corners and spine ends. Binding with mild edgewear and bumping to spine ends; faint damping close inspection only. Faber and Faber unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 37587London: Robert Hale 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full orange cloth with titling silver to spine. 272 pp. With several illustrative plates. Upper portion of front free endpaper and dustjacket very slightly foxed. Robert Hale hardcover books
1983Best.-Nr. 37610Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full black cloth with titling gilt to spine. 194 pp. With 5 illustrations. In dustjacket. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1975Best.-Nr. 37599London: J.M. Dent 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full green cloth with titling silver to spine. 202 pp. In dustjacket. J.M. Dent hardcover books
1986Best.-Nr. 37588Berkeley Los Angeles London: University of California Press 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. xix 380 pp. With numerous musical examples throughout and several illustrative plates some in color. In dustjacket. University of California Press hardcover books
2005Best.-Nr. 35986London: Sotheby's 2005. Paperback. Very Good. Quarto. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. 16 pp. With illustrations in color. Sotheby's paperback books
1931Best.-Nr. 35944Berlin: Russischer Musik Verlag 1931. Quarto. Stiff light tan wrappers. 286 pp. 3ff. "Chronologisches Verzeichnis der Werke Igor Strawinskys" 1f. recto "Schallplatten-Verzeichnis" verso blank. With numerous musical examples some in facsimile and several illustrative plates. Russischer Musik Verlag unknown books
1984Best.-Nr. 33014Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel 1984. Hardcover. Fine. Small folio. 386 pp. Illustrated. Kunstmuseum Basel hardcover books
1969Best.-Nr. 256031New York: Alfred A Knopf 1969. First edition. ix i 350 xi pp. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth faded at edges in very good edge-worn dustjacket. First edition. ix i 350 xi pp. 8vo. Signed on the flyleaf "Igor Stravinksy / 1.30.70" and inscribed by co-author Robert Craft. The recipient was Miranda "Mirandi" Massoco Levy 1914-2011 the doyenne of Sante Fe cultural life instumental in the success of the Sante Fe Opera and a close friend of Stravinsky. Alfred A Knopf unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 255987London: Gollancz 1936. First English edition. Illustrated. 286 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth repaired at head of spine in yellow printed dust jacket spine darkened and chipped with some loss to title small book ticket to spine. First English edition. Illustrated. 286 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on the ffep "A Sam & Louise Dushkin. Leur ami I Stravinsky. Paris 30.3.36." Samuel Dushkin 1891-1976 was a concert violinist who worked closely with Stravinsky on the composition of the latter's Violin Concerto 1931 his first major work for the instrument. Dushkin premiered the work in concert with Stravinsky conducting the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Stravinsky recounts his collaboration with Dushkin on pp. 268-278 of his memoir. "I was very glad to find in him besides his remarkable gifts as a born violinist a musical culture a delicate understanding and - in the exercise of his profession - an abnegation that is very rare" p. 270. Stravinksy was inspired by his success with the Violin Concerto to compose a sonata for violin and piano which he took on tour with Dushkin to Europe and America ". a deeper knowledge of the violin and close collaboration with a technician like Dushkin had revealed possibilities which I longed to explore" p. 275. An important association marking a milestone in the expansion of Stravinksy's evolution as a composer. Gollancz unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 244796Cambridge 1940. One page typewritten signed in black ink. 1 vols. 4to. Old folds. Fine with original typed mailing envelope typed name "Igor Strawinsky" above printed return address. One page typewritten signed in black ink. 1 vols. 4to. "Stravinsky began his stay in the United States at Harvard University delivering six Charles Eliot Norton lectures on musical poetics during the 1939-1940 academic year" ADNB. In this brief formal letter Stravinsky acknowledges receipt of an edition of the Russian legend retold and illustrated by Donald E. Cooke. It was Stravinsky's 1910 score of The Firebird for the Ballets Russes that first brought him international notice. The New York Times obituary of Stravinsky published on 6 April 1971 noted "He also was not pleased that 'The Firebird' remained his most popular composition." Uncommon document from early in Stravinsky's residence in the U.S. when he still spelt his surname with "w" in his signature and return address. unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 1084781950. Signed. STRAVINSKY Igor. Photograph inscribed. No place 1950. Black-and-white postcard portrait measuring 3-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches; matted and framed entire piece measures 9-1/2 by 12 inches. $2200.Postcard photograph of Igor Stravinsky inscribed ÒPour Monsieur Maurice Dubois avec mes meilleurs compliments Igor Stravinsky 1950.Ó""Few 20th-century composers enjoyed international influence and importance equal to that of Stravinsky. This influence exists in the materials of his music and in his rigorous search for an individual soundÉ For many years he was with Schoenberg one of the two unofficial poles of Western music"" ANB. The postcard portrait is dated September 1948 and is attractively matted and framed with a page of music from Stravinsky's Four Etudes. An attractive inscribed and signed framed piece in fine condition. unknown books
1949Best.-Nr. 73026NY: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1949. First edition. 245 pp. Near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to crown. Design by Merle Armitage. Contributions by Cocteau Satie Klee Weston Osbert Sitwell Aaron Copland Picasso Chagall and concluding with a discography and works. Small “Ex Libris / Clive Elliott” stamp on the front free endpaper. NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 1004541962. First Edition. Signed. STRAVINSKY Igor. CRAFT Robert. Expositions and Developments. Garden City New York: Doubleday 1962. Octavo original black cloth original dust jacket. $2500.First edition warmly inscribed on the half title to neighbor and longtime friend Miranda Levy ""To my dear Miranda with love and kisses from I Stravinsky Nov /63.""""Few 20th-century composers enjoyed international influence and importance equal to that of Stravinsky. This influence exists in the materials of his music and in his rigorous search for an individual soundÉ For many years he was with Schoenberg one of the two unofficial poles of Western music"" ANB. In these conversations with his protg conductor Robert Craft who coauthored seven books with him Stravinsky discusses his childhood in St. Petersburg Russia; recalls such musical luminaries as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov; reflects on the intersection of music and modern recording technology; and discusses scores including The Firebird The Rite of Spring and his then-new work The Flood. Illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photographs. Inscribed to Miranda Levy a founding member of the Santa Fe Opera and wife of pioneering television director Ralph Levy whose credits include directing the original I Love Lucy pilot episode. Miranda ""met Stravinsky at the Aspen Colorado Music Festival in 1950 then hosted him on a New Mexico visitÉ When the composer let it be known he was interested in D.H. LawrenceÉ Miranda introduced Stravinsky to Lawrence's widowÉ Miranda and Ralph Levy moved to Los Angeles and bought a house less than a block from Stravinsky'sÉ Just as she had once kept Santa Feans up to date on the latest news and gossip she now regaled Igor and Vera Stravinsky with daily updates on movie studio gossip"" Albuquerque Journal.Dust jacket with light rubbing to spine ends and edges. A very nearly fine inscribed presentation/association copy. hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 54581London: Gollancz 1972. First UK edition. xvi 424 pp w/indexes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a wrinkle to the crown. London: Gollancz, unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 35878Kent: Kent State University Press 1974. First edition. x 158 pp w/indexes. Fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Kent: Kent State University Press unknown books