Encounters with Stravinsky: A Personal Record

by Paul Horgan

Book Overview

This book is a sketchbook in which I attempt to bring to page by recollection and anecdote various details for a portrait of Igor Stravinsky in terms of his meaning to me, both before I came to know... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0370102991
• ISBN13: 9780374148287
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A story of a very personal relationship of genius

This book covers the time when the author Paul Horgan discovered the music of Igor Stravinsky and as fate would have it, became Stravinsky's personal friend. Very biographical in the first years of Horgan's writing career then the exciting part comes into play when he actually meets Mr and Mrs. Stravinsky for the first time, and fosters a personal and professional friendship up until the death of the maestro. Anyone interested in the genius of Stravinsky and his life as a conductor touring the World after 70 years of age will be fascinated by this account.