COLUMBIA RECORDING IS A FAITHFUL DOCUMENT OF THE RITE OF SPR

Sale 2492 - Lot 298

Price Realized: $ 2,860

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

COLUMBIA RECORDING IS "A FAITHFUL DOCUMENT OF THE RITE" OF SPRING IGOR STRAVINSKY. Typed Letter Signed, to conductor Bernardino Molinari, in French, including three bars of music in holograph, explaining how his Rite of Spring should be performed. 1 page, 4to; folds, faint scattered foxing, remnants of hinging at upper edge verso. Paris, 1 August 1938

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

The music, bars 142, 174, and 181 from The Rite of Spring, notated on three machine-drawn staves. Of bar 201, Stravinsky points out that there is "no need for an accelerando . . . it should all be played regularly in the tempo indicated at 186 and at the start of la Danse Sacrale 142 . . . ."

The letter continues: ". . . I suggest you use my Columbia record where The Rite is recorded under my direction and you will therefore be able to find the answers to a lot of your questions . . . about the study of my piece. . . . [It is] a faithful document of The Rite . . . ."