Vera de Bosset
Vera de Bosset Stravinsky (January 7, 1889[1] – September 17, 1982) was an American dancer and artist. She is better known as the second wife of composer Igor Stravinsky, whom she married in 1940 after having been in an adulterous affair with him since July 1921.
Life
Vera de Bosset was born Vera Bosse, the daughter of Eduard Bosse (1854–1927)[2] and Hedwig von Ruckteschel (1866–1938).[3] Both parents were Baltic German nobility.[4] She was sent to boarding school in Moscow, where she learned how to play piano.[5] Vera allegedly changed her name to the French "de Bosset" to hide her German ancestry. She was the only one of her family to do so.[citation needed]
Stravinsky met Vera in 1921. She was a dancer and the wife of the painter and stage designer Serge Sudeikin. Stravinsky was then married to his cousin Yekaterina Nosenko and had four children. Stravinsky and Vera began an affair which led to her leaving her husband. From then until the death of Yekaterina from pneumonia in March 1939, Stravinsky led a double life, spending most of his time with his wife and children and the rest with Vera.[citation needed] Yekaterina reportedly bore her husband's infidelity "with a mixture of magnanimity, bitterness, and compassion".[6]
In September 1939, Stravinsky arrived in America to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vera followed in January 1940; they were married in Bedford, Massachusetts on March 9.[7]
After Stravinsky's death in 1971, Vera continued to live in the New York apartment they had bought shortly before his death. She died in 1982 and is buried with Stravinsky in Venice's Isola di San Michele.
See also
References
- Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship, Craft, Robert, Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press. 1994. ISBN 0-8265-1258-5
- von Ruckteschell Family papers, taken care of by Georg Bosse, Kentucky, USA.
- ^ In "Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories" (Craft, Robert, Naxos Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-84379-753-1, p. 154), Robert Craft recalls that "after an emotionally and physically exhausting day...Vera abruptly announced that she could not keep up, and that she was four years older than the dates on her passport." This would mean her true birth date was 1/7/1885, and her age at death 97.
- ^ Die Nachkommen des Kantors, Schulmeisters und Hilfspredigers an der St. Petri-Gemeinde in St. Petersburg Sebastian Bosse (1697-1775), in: Baltische Ahnen- und Stammtafeln Sonderheft 12 (Köln 1976), p. 10
- ^ GHdBR (NF) Band II (2012) ISSN 2193-164X, p. 338
- ^ However, in Craft 2013, p. 154, Robert Craft describes Vera as being born "to a French father and Swedish mother, neither with any Russian blood."
- ^ "BBC - Radio 3 - Classical/Tchaikovsky & Stravinsky/A-Z. Letter V for Vera Stravinsky". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
- ^ Joseph, Charles M.. 2001. Stravinsky Inside Out. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07537-3.
- ^ White, Eric Walter in "Stravinsky, Igor (Fyodorovich)" in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The. (London: Macmillan, 1985), vol. 18, p.254.
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musical dramas
- The Nightingale
- Renard
- The Soldier's Tale
- Mavra
- Oedipus rex
- Perséphone
- The Rake's Progress
- The Flood
- The Firebird
- Petrushka
- The Rite of Spring (discography)
- Les noces
- Pulcinella
- Apollo
- The Fairy's Kiss
- Jeu de cartes
- Danses concertantes
- Scènes de ballet
- Orpheus
- Agon
- Symphony in E♭
- Symphony of Psalms
- Symphony in C
- Symphony in Three Movements
- Scherzo fantastique
- Fireworks
- Funeral Song
- Four Études
- The Song of the Nightingale
- Circus Polka
- Ode
- Scherzo à la russe
- Greeting Prelude
- Movements for Piano and Orchestra
- Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam
- Canon on a Russian Popular Tune
- Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
- Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
- Violin Concerto in D
- Concerto in E♭ ("Dumbarton Oaks")
- Ebony Concerto
- Concerto in D
vocal
- Pastorale
- Pribaoutki
- Berceuses du chat
- Abraham and Isaac
- Elegy for J.F.K.
- "The Owl and the Pussy Cat"
- Zvezdoliki
- Ave Maria
- Babel
- Mass
- Cantata
- Canticum Sacrum
- Threni
- A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer
- Requiem Canticles
pianola
- "Tarantella"
- Scherzo
- Piano Sonata in F♯ minor
- Four Études
- "Valse des fleurs"
- Three Easy Pieces
- Five Easy Pieces
- Étude for Pianola
- Piano-Rag-Music
- Les cinq doigts
- Three Movements from Petrushka
- Piano Sonata
- Serenade in A
- Concerto for Two Pianos
- Tango
- Sonata for Two Pianos
- Two Sketches for a Sonata
music
- Three Pieces for String Quartet
- Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet
- Lied ohne Name
- Octet
- Duo Concertant
- Elegy
- Septet
- Epitaphium
- Double Canon (in Memoriam Raoul Dufy)
- Bluebird Pas de Deux (from Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty)
- Monumentum pro Gesualdo
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- Ballets Russes
- Nadia Boulanger
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (film)
- Jean Cocteau
- Sergei Diaghilev
- Samuel Dushkin
- Arthur Lourié
- Monday Evening Concerts
- New York City Ballet
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- Werner Reinhart
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