![STRAVINSKY, Igor (1882-1971). Le Sacre du Printemps. Tableaux de la Russie Paienne En Deux Parties D'Igor Strawinsky et Nicholas Roerich. Reduction pour Piano à Quatre Mains par l'Auteur. Èdition Russe de Musique, Berlin, Moscow, Leipzig & New York, [1921].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/NYR/2013_NYR_02706_0071_000(stravinsky_igor_le_sacre_du_printemps_tableaux_de_la_russie_paienne_en083125).jpg?w=1)
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STRAVINSKY, Igor (1882-1971). Le Sacre du Printemps. Tableaux de la Russie Paienne En Deux Parties D'Igor Strawinsky et Nicholas Roerich. Reduction pour Piano à Quatre Mains par l'Auteur. Èdition Russe de Musique, Berlin, Moscow, Leipzig & New York, [1913].
2o (330 x 270 mm.) [8], 89 [90] pp. Title within a narrow typographic border (repeated on cover), music for piano four hands. Original publisher's paper-backed printed boards. (Slight browning, boards slightly rubbed). Slipcase. Provenance: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 13 October 1970, lot 175.
FIRST EDITION. A MARVELOUS ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE RITE OF SPRING, INSCRIBED BY THE COMPOSER TO PIERRE MONTEUX (1875-1964), conductor of the legendary first performance of Le Sacre du Printemps at the Theâtre des Champs-Elysées on 29 May 1913. At the upper corner of the first page of music Stravinsky writes: "Je vous embrasse mon cher Monteux. Je n'oublierai jamais ni la rue Clichy [sic] ni le 5 et 26 Avril 1914. Paris 18.V.1914." Flyleaf with presentation inscription (dated the very day of the first performance) from one of the printers: "A Monsieur P. Monteux Chef d'Orchestre de Ballets Russes, Paris, le 29 Mai 1913. Edition russe de musique Nicholas de Strouvé."
A rare edition of Stravinsky's revolutionary Sacre du Printemps, a 20th-century cultural watershed whose first performance touched off an unprecedented riot. "The pagans on stage," one critic wrote, "made pagans of the audience." The conductor, Monteux, had a long and distinguished career in France and later, the United States. Between 1911 and 1914 he conducted world premieres of Stravinsky's Petrushka, Claude Debussy's Jeux and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé.
In his later autobiography, Stravinsky recounted the genesis of the work: "I had a fleeting vision...I saw in imagination a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watched a young girl dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propitiate the god of Spring. Such was the theme...I must confess that this vision made a deep impression on me..."
2o (330 x 270 mm.) [8], 89 [90] pp. Title within a narrow typographic border (repeated on cover), music for piano four hands. Original publisher's paper-backed printed boards. (Slight browning, boards slightly rubbed). Slipcase. Provenance: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 13 October 1970, lot 175.
FIRST EDITION. A MARVELOUS ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE RITE OF SPRING, INSCRIBED BY THE COMPOSER TO PIERRE MONTEUX (1875-1964), conductor of the legendary first performance of Le Sacre du Printemps at the Theâtre des Champs-Elysées on 29 May 1913. At the upper corner of the first page of music Stravinsky writes: "Je vous embrasse mon cher Monteux. Je n'oublierai jamais ni la rue Clichy [sic] ni le 5 et 26 Avril 1914. Paris 18.V.1914." Flyleaf with presentation inscription (dated the very day of the first performance) from one of the printers: "A Monsieur P. Monteux Chef d'Orchestre de Ballets Russes, Paris, le 29 Mai 1913. Edition russe de musique Nicholas de Strouvé."
A rare edition of Stravinsky's revolutionary Sacre du Printemps, a 20th-century cultural watershed whose first performance touched off an unprecedented riot. "The pagans on stage," one critic wrote, "made pagans of the audience." The conductor, Monteux, had a long and distinguished career in France and later, the United States. Between 1911 and 1914 he conducted world premieres of Stravinsky's Petrushka, Claude Debussy's Jeux and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé.
In his later autobiography, Stravinsky recounted the genesis of the work: "I had a fleeting vision...I saw in imagination a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watched a young girl dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propitiate the god of Spring. Such was the theme...I must confess that this vision made a deep impression on me..."
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The publication date of the edition is 1913. The inscription from Stravinsky reads: "Je vous embrasse mon cher Monteux. Je n'oublierai jamais ni la rue Clichy ni le 5 et 26 Avril 1914. Igor Stravinsky. Paris - 18.V.1914." The second inscription is by Nicholas Strouvé.