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Chroniques de ma vie I et II

1935122 x 188 mm

ORIGINAL EDITIONS and complete collection.
TWO SELF-SIGNED SENDINGS signed to composers.

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ORIGINAL EDITIONS and complete collection.
Copies from the press office.

AUTOGRAPHIC SENDINGS signed on each of the volumes.

ON VOLUME I, in the margin of the frontispiece a portrait of the author:

"For Mr. Gustave Samazeuilh, a great greeting from I. Stravinsky, Paris 1952."

ON VOLUME II, in Russian:

"I send you dear Arthur [Lourié] the second volume of my Chronicles as a continuation of our relations interrupted by the distance which separates you from me: I live in the eighth arrondissement and you in the sixteenth, which from the point of view of your geographical knowledge doubles the distance.
Best wishes for the new year
Still your, I. Stravinsky Paris, 1.1. 36".

Gustave Samazeuilh (1877-1967) composer and pianist, was a pupil of Ernest Chausson before entering the Schola Cantorum in 1900 and working with Vincent d'Indy and Charles Bordes. Close to Paul Dukas, Enesco, Fauré, Ravel, Roussel and friend of Richard Strauss, he was also famous for his music criticism in The French Republic and to La Revue musicaleor as a musicographer and translator. He has translated Richard Wagner's three-act musical drama into French, Tristan and Isolde, and published studies on Paul Dukas (1913) and Ernest Chausson (1941).

THE SECOND DECEIVER is most probably Arthur Lourié (1896-1966) who, after applying for asylum in Berlin, moved to Paris in 1922, 63 rue La Fontaine Paris XVI and became friends with his compatriot Igor Stravinsky. He became one of his most important supporters and even adapted some of his works for solo piano.

BEAUTIFUL MUSICAL ORIGINS AND VERY RARE REUNION.

Paris,Denoel and Steele,1935.2 volumesIn-12, Softcover122 x 188 mm,187 and 190 pp.

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Igor Stravinsky

(Born June 17, 1882 in Oranienbaum, Russia and died April 6, 1971 in New York, USA)

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