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The Sketchbook of the Rite of Spring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Roger Smalley
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‘In the winter [of 1910–11 Stravinsky] went with Maurice Ravel to Varese, an Italian town not far from Como, found in a stationer's shop an exercise book and, tempted by its presentation and the quality of the paper, he and Ravel bought one copy each.’ For the next two years Stravinsky carried this book from ‘The Lindens’, a pension in Clarens, to Monte Carlo, Paris, Venice, to his summer home in Ustilug in Russian Volhynia and finally back to the Hotel du Châtelard in Clarens, and in it he wrote the first draft of The Rite of Spring.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 91 , Winter 1970 , pp. 2 - 13
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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References

page 2 note 1 Quoted from the Preface, by Francois Lesure, p. vii (where the relevant date is erroneously printedas 1911–12).

page 2 note 2 Quoted from Craft's, Robert ‘Commentary to the Sketches’, p. 3 Google Scholar.

page 2 note 3 Quoted from the description of Stravinsky's work-table by C. F. Ramuz (Souvenirs sur I. Stravinsky).

page 2 note 4 This essay has already been published in Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 5 No. 1, p. 20.

page 3 note 1 These two pages are reproduced in facsimile in Tempo 85.

page 3 note 2 These are listed under No. 3 in Appendix C of White's, Eric Walter Stravinsky—The Composer and his Works, Faber, 1966 Google Scholar.

page 4 note 1 Reproduced on the back cover of Tempo 85, and also in Tempo 89.

page 4 note 2 All rehearsal numbers refer to the published score (revised edition, 1942).

page 6 note 1 ‘Commentary to the Sketches’, p. 23.