Crafting the Ballets Russes: Music, Dance, Design: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection

The Morgan Library's collection of French and Russian ballet scores, including Firebird, Petruschka, and Bolero, is showcased in this book, offering a fresh view into Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes troupe and its revitalization of ballet in Paris. These influential ballets and their creators set a new agenda for European art, and the 1930s began a new international era of modern ballet.

Format: Hardback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 25 June 2024
Publisher: D Giles Ltd

This book celebrates one of the world's finest private gatherings of music manuscripts, held on deposit at the Morgan Library. Robert Owen Lehman's superb collection of French and Russian ballet scores, including Firebird, Petrushka, Afternoon of a Faun, Bolero, and many more, are shown here for the first time alongside the vivid stage designs and rarely seen choreographic notations for these ballets. Together, they offer a fresh view into Serge Diaghilev's famed Ballets Russes troupe and its revitalization of ballet that roiled Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century. These influential ballets and their creators-composers Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel, choreographers Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Bronislava Nijinska, and artists Leon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, and Natalia Goncharova-set a new agenda for European art. As the 1930s began, a new international era of modern ballet was underway.

Weight: 946g
Dimension: 223 x 287 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913875671