Igor Stravinsky's never-before published works

"The Schhol of Music" - an academic book publisher based in St.Petersburg, Russia proudly present's first publication in it's new series "Treasures of Saint Petersburg Musical Archives".

The series "Treasures of Saint Petersburg Musical Archives" is a joint project between The School of Music" publishing house and the Russian Institute for the History of the Arts. Leading specialists from the Institute study the tremendous collections of music and related materials kept by various museums, libraries and research centres.
We are proud to present the first book in this series - "Igor Stravinsky's Orchestrations of Beethoven's and Musorgsky's Song of the Flea" (ISBN 5950005716).
The book has been written by a leading specialist from the Institute, Dr. Arkady Klimovitsky, and the English translation is edited by the well known Professor Stuart Campbell of the University of Glasgow, Scotland, one of the authors of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
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Includes:
- Never published before facsimile copies of two Stravinsky`s manuscripts
- The editions of Beethoben's and Musorgsky's "Song of The Flea" which were at Stravinsky disposal.
- The rare first published edition of Stravinsky's orchestrations of Beethoven and Mussorgsky's Song of The Flea with Stravinsky's prepublication notes
- The proof sheets of the never before published edition of Stravinsky's orchestration of Musorgsky's Song of The Flea which was originally intended to be printed prior to the first edition but never was.
- Never before published facsimile copy of handwritten score with penciled corrections and notes by Igor Stravinsky and the first conductor, Alexanr Siloti
- Examples of the orchestration parts for some of the instruments for Stravinsky's orchestrations within the textual descriptions
- Epistolary sources, analytical essays, other historical and cultural studies, together with an extensive reference part.
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Our mission is to employ experienced publishing professionals in making available to the world treasures currently hidden in archives and accessible only to the few. Hitherto little known masterpieces of Russian and European culture will be presented within the next few years.