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TitleRobert Craft collection on Igor StravinskyNoteRelated material: transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress. Applies To: Sound recordings Related material: The following Music Division special collections feature materials related to Stravinsky: the Claudio Spies Papers and the Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain composer's music; correspondence with Stravinsky is a part of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection and the Serge Koussevitzky Archive.Related material: Stravinsky music manuscripts can be found in the Library of Congress Music Division General Collections [ML96.S94]; the Koussevitzky Music Foundation materials, including the commission "Ode, in Three Parts, for Orchestra"; and the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress, including the commission "Apollon-Musagète."Related material: Sammlung Igor Strawinsky: Musikmanuskripte [Igor Stravinsky Collection: Music Manuscripts] Archive and Research Center for the Music of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Paul Sacher Stiftung; Auf Burg, Münsterplatz 4, CH-4051 Basel Switzerland.Biographical data: Igor Stravinsky (b. June 17, 1882, St. Petersburg, Russia - d. Apr. 6, 1971, New York, N.Y.) was a Russian-born French, later American composer, pianist, and conductor.Biographical data: Robert Craft (b. Oct. 20, 1923, in Kingston, N.Y. - d. Nov. 10, 2015, in Gulf Stream, Fla.) was an American conductor, scholar, and writer. He studied at Juilliard School before serving in World War II, returning to graduate in 1946. Craft met Stravinsky in 1948, and from then until the composer's death in 1971, he worked with Stravinsky in a variety of roles, eventually evolving into a full artistic partnership. He made a name for himself conducting major orchestras throughout the world, premiering Stravinsky's works in addition to others by prominent composers such as Paul Hindemith, Edgard Varèse, and Alban Berg. Craft published several books of transcriptions of their discussions beginning in 1959 with "Conversations with Igor Stravinsky."Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and atCould not render: bf:electronicLocatorExtentapproximately 300 items (24 containers, 12.4 linear feet)Usage And Access PolicyOpen to researchNot all materials in this collection may be readily accessible; please request accessibility information well in advance of your visitCertain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.Could not render: bf:electronicLocatorPreferred CitationRobert Craft Collection on Igor Stravinsky, Music Division, Library of Congress.