My "The Rite of Spring" Used Book Store Find

Posted on Jan 15, 2009 | 4 comments
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My "The Rite of Spring" Used Book Store Find

OK, this may not be on par with finding the score of an unknown Beethoven symphony sewn into the lining of an 18th-Century Tyrolian overcoat, but I think this is kind of cool. I have on my shelf what seems to be an original copy of the first full score of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, published in 1921 by Édition Russe de Musique.  (Prior to that,...

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