Volume 26, Number 18 · November 22, 1979
Catherine and Igor Stravinsky
By Robert Craft
Catherine Nossenko Stravinsky, first wife of the composer, is not mentioned by name in the three references to her in his Autobiography (1935), and her roles in his life remain virtually unknown. Any full study of Stravinsky must include the story of both of his marriages, but while Vera Stravinsky's place has been at least partly established, no publication does the same for Catherine. Although the deficiency will not be rectified by the excerpts from Catherine's letters to her husband presented here, they should help to give some sense of her personality as well as to contribute to an expanded and intimate view of his character.
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