Ballet Music: The Masterworks Library

by Igor Stravinsky (Composer)

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). Pulcinella Suite (revised 1949 version) * Apollon Musagete (revised 1947 version) * Le Baiser de la Fee (revised 1950 version).

270 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2004

About the author

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century music.

He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the century. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1946. In addition to the recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a pianist and a conductor, often at the premieres of his works.

He also published a number of books throughout his career, almost always with the aid of a collaborator, sometimes uncredited. In his 1936 autobiography, Chronicles of My Life, written with the help of Walter Nouvel, Stravinsky included his infamous statement that "music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all."