Poétique musicale : sous forme de 6 leçons

Poétique musicale was written in 1939, following an invitation to lecture at Harvard University during the 1939—1940 academic year as the first musician to hold the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship. The request came during a painful period when Stravinsky was mourning the deaths of his daughter, his wife, and his mother while he himself was in treatment at the Sancellemoz Sanatorium. His engagement at Harvard marked the beginning of his definitive exile in the United States.

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genreEssayTreatise
editorHarvard University Press
place of publicationCambridge (Mass.)
years of publication1942
pages95
languagesfrançais
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