{"id":545,"date":"2016-12-01T04:51:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/?page_id=545"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:24:48","slug":"stravinsky_soulima","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/about\/collections\/specialcollections\/collections_descriptions\/stravinsky_soulima\/","title":{"rendered":"Soulima Stravinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Soulima Stravinsky (1910-1994) was the youngest son of composer Igor Stravinsky and was a piano student of Nadia Boulanger. He moved to the United States in 1948. In 1950, Stravinsky was appointed to the piano faculty of the School of Music of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Illinois\">University of Illinois<\/a>, where he remained until 1978.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soulima_Stravinsky#cite_note-NYT1-3\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0He continued his solo career and began distinguishing himself as a composer, transcriber and editor.<\/p>\n<p>The collection was acquired in 1977-8 prior to Stravinsky\u2019s departure from the University and consists of piano music (about 250 items); miniature scores (10); full scores (25); score and part sets of piano concertos (7 sets); and 108 books on music (primarily in French).<\/p>\n<h2>Location \/ Access<\/h2>\n<h3>Music and Performing Arts Library<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>Books and scores are dispersed among MPAL\u2019s cataloged holdings and can be found via the online catalog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Sousa Archives and Center for American Music<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>For faculty recital recordings, see Series 2: Faculty Recitals and Lectures, 1949-1992 in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/archon\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=11113&amp;q\">School of Music Audio Department Sound Recordings, 1945-1992 Finding Aid<\/a>\u00a0at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Index terms<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>Piano music<\/li>\n<li>University of Illinois composers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>See also<\/h2>\n<p>Stravinsky\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nypl.org\/research\/research-catalog\/bib\/b11652186?originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.nypl.org%2Frecord%3Db11652186~S1\">personal papers<\/a> were deposited at the Music Division of the NYPL for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description Soulima Stravinsky (1910-1994) was the youngest son of composer Igor Stravinsky and was a piano student of Nadia Boulanger. He moved to the United States in 1948. In 1950, Stravinsky was appointed to the piano faculty of the School of Music of the\u00a0University of Illinois, where he remained until 1978.[1]\u00a0He continued his solo career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5306,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions\/5306"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}