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STRAVINSKY, Igor (1882-1971). Corrected proofs signed (‘Igor Stravinsky’) of songs from Berceuses du chat and Pribaoutki , and for Renard , Geneva: Adolf Henn, 1917. 52 pages in total (291 x 197mm; 13 of these in oblong orientation). Autograph tempo annotations and dynamic markings and emendations to the notation and text throughout, in red, green and pink ink, black and mauve pencil (some browning throughout, scattered marginal tears and staining). Comprising page proofs for: 'I. Cnn KotV - Sur le Poêle [On the stove]' and ‘IV. Y KoTa KoTa - Ce qu'il a le Chat [Oh, Tom-cat, Tom-cat]’ from Berceuses du chat , scored for voice and three clarinets (pp. 1-3; complete); ‘II. Natashka - Le Four’, ‘III. Polkovnik – Le Colonel’, and ‘IV. Starets i zayats – Le Vieux et le Lièvre’ from Pribaoutki , scored for voice and chamber ensemble (pp. 4-10; ‘Le Four’ lacking opening pages and ‘Le Vieux et le Lièvre’ lacking closing pages); and for the vocal score for Renard (pp. 11-52; opening incompletely, lacking pages throughout and at end). An important source for the development of Stravinsky ’ s folk-inspired Berceuses du chat , Pribaoutki , and Renard, likely presented to Lord Berners as one of the benefactors who supported the publication of these works. Stravinsky wrote in An Autobiography (1935): ‘Some of my friends at that time offered to bear the cost of publishing several of my compositions. I gave the work to Henn, the Geneva concert agent, and Renard , Pribaoutki , and Berceuses du chat , and the two groups of easy pieces for duets, thus made their appearance in the winter of 1916-1917’: the present pages represent the surviving proofs for this edition, along with a further eleven pages given to Lord Berners that were sold in 1987 (Sotheby’s, 22 May, lots 529 and 531). Stravinsky drew upon Russian folk sources in the creation of these three works, composed between 1914 and 1916 and often performed together; just before the war, he returned to Russia in search of popular verse to use for inspiration, returning with the Kireievsky and Afanasiev collections of folk poetry that find their representation here. [ With: ] three printed scores signed and inscribed by Stravinsky to Lord Berners: Sonate pour Piano (Paris, 1924), signed and inscribed Paris, 15 June [19]25; Les Noces (London, [?1922]), signed and inscribed London, 8 July [19]26; and Jeu de cartes (Mainz, 1937), signed and inscribed Paris, 28 June [19]37 [ And: ] six further printed Stravinsky scores [ And: ] manuscript for three of the Five Easy Pieces (‘Andante’, ‘Balalaika’, and ‘Galop’), n.p., n.d. [c.1917] in a copyist’s hand, 14 pages (362 x 281mm) [ And: ] Darius Milhaud, Trois po ë mes (Paris, 1920), printed score signed and inscribed to Lord Berners by Milhaud, Paris, 1920 [ And: ] copyist’s manuscript for Pedro Morales’ Miniaturas para canto y piano , n.p., n.d. (4 leaves; 330 x 240mm).