Stravinsky the Music-Maker is the third incarnation of a book that has been greeted with superlatives on each previous appearance. Hans Keller and Milein Cosman collaborated down the decades of their married life, Keller's pen analysing music, Cosman's catching its makers at work. Stravinsky was a source of fascination for them both, and their Stravinsky at Rehearsal appeared in 1962, to be expanded, two decades later, as Stravinsky Seen and Heard. Stravinsky the Music-Maker offers the most generous compilation of their work yet: it includes Keller's complete articles on Stravinsky, written between 1954 and 1980, and augments Cosman's celebrated prints and drawings with a number not previously published. The introduction, by the composer Hugh Wood, sites the Keller-Cosman partnership in the framework of the British musical life they enriched.HANS KELLER (1919-85) fled Austria in 1938 and became a commanding critical voice in British music journalism and on the BBC from the end of the war until his death. He is the author of numerous books, many illustrated by his wife Milein Cosman, including Criticism (Faber), The Great Haydn String Quartets/ (Dent), Essays on Music (CUP), Jerusalem Diary, Film Music and Beyond and Music and Psychology (all Plumbago). A critic of insight and integrity throughout his life, he remains a powerful influence to this day.
Preface: Hans Keller and Milein Cosman - A Happy Story Hugh Wood 7
Editorial Introduction Martin Anderson 17
Acknowledgements 23
Part 1 Hans Keller - Writings 25
I Symphony in Three Movements 27
II [Quatre Études and Octet] 28
III [Orpheus and Mass] 30
IV [Symphony of Psalms] 33
V [Mass] 34
VI Schoenberg and Stravinsky: Schoenbergians and Stravinskyians 35
VII A Serial Masterpiece 42
VIII Towards the Psychology of Stravinsky's Genius 45
IX Rhythm: Gershwin and Stravinsky 49
X Symphony of Psalms 64
XI Strawinsky's Performance of Agon: A Report 70
XII 'Conversations with Igor Stravinsky' 75
XIII No Bridge to Nowhere: An Introduction to Stravinsky's Movements and Schoenberg's Violin Concerto 82
XIV Movements 87
XV The Note-Row on May 31 89
XVI Me about Us and Stravinsky 92
XVII Stravinsky's Violin Concerto 96
XVIII Stravinsky Eats 98
XIX Stravinsky the Downbeater 101
XX Concerto in D 105
XXI Perséphone 107
XXII Stravinsky v. Stravinsky 109
XXIII Words v. Music 114
XXIV An Instrumental Problem in Pulcinella 118
XXV Factual Orgy 122
XXVI Stravinsky Heard 126
XXVII Words about Music 167
Part 2 Milein Cosman - Prints and Drawings 171
Drawing Stravinsky 173
A Note about the Illustrations in this Book 175
Index 231
Overview
Stravinsky the Music-Maker is the third incarnation of a book that has been greeted with superlatives on each previous appearance. Hans Keller and Milein Cosman collaborated down the decades of their married life, Keller's pen analysing music, Cosman's catching its makers at work. Stravinsky was a source of fascination for them both, and their Stravinsky at Rehearsal appeared in 1962, to be expanded, two decades later, as Stravinsky Seen and Heard. Stravinsky the Music-Maker offers the most generous compilation ...