The Rake's Progress Teachers Guide - San Francisco Opera

Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso collaborated on Pulcinella in 1920.
Picasso took the opportunity to make several sketches of the composer.
Stravinsky moved to France in 1920. During this period he worked with the French piano
manufacturer Pleyel to prepare player piano music rolls of his music. He personally created
around 50 such roll recordings in which he intended to give listeners a definitive
understanding of the music.
A player piano with piano roll
After a short stay near Paris, he then moved with his family to the south of France until
1934, when he returned to Paris to take up residence at the rue Faubourg St.-Honoré.
Stravinsky later recalled this as his last and unhappiest European address; his wife's
tuberculosis infected his eldest daughter Ludmila, and Stravinsky himself. Ludmila died in
1938, Katerina in the following year. While Stravinsky was in the hospital, where he was
treated for five months, his mother also died. Stravinsky already had contacts in the United
States; he was working on the Symphony in C for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and
had agreed to lecture in Harvard during the academic year of 1939-40. When war broke out
in September, he set out for the United States, at first living in Hollywood but moving to
New York in 1969.
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