Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 300

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
STRAVINSKY, IGOR. Typed Letter Signed, in red ink, to his attorney L. Arnold Weissberger, sending copies of his correspondence with Leeds [Music Corporation; not present], explaining that he has not received payment from Leeds, asking Weissberger to take action on the matter, and giving his travel plans. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; two punch holes at upper edge, date ink stamp at upper edge, horizontal folds. Hollywood, 8 March 1961
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". . . Needless to say I have received no answer from Leeds to my two letters requesting accounting and payment.
"Please take this in your own hands and give it prompt action. [T]hese people at Leeds are awful and I have no intention to show more patience nor any kindness to them. . . ."
Stravinsky was especially mistrustful of the Leeds Music Corporation, against whom he brought suit in the late 1940s for failing to fulfill the terms of their contract for the publication of a popular adaptation of his "Summer Moon."