STRAVINSKY IGOR: (1882-1971) Russian composer, conductor and pianist. A.L.S., I Stravinsky, to one side of a plain Carte Postale, Carantec (Brittany), 18^th June 1920, to Henri Prunieres, in French. Stravinsky informs his correspondent that he is in Carantec and working on a piece in memory of Debussy that he had promised to Prunieres, hoping that he is not too late and commenting 'Cette piece pour un ensemble d'instruments, je la reduirai au piano et vous l'enverrai sitot faite' (Translation: 'This piece is for an ensemble of instruments, I will reduce it to the piano and send it to you as soon as it is done'). Immediately after his signature Stravinsky adds the words 'toujours en retard et qui manque tous ses rendezvous' (Translation: 'always late and missing all his appointments'). Hand addressed by the composer to the verso and again signed ('I Stravinsky') by him in the return address panel. About EX

Henri Prunieres (1886-1942) French musicologist, founder of the monthly musical periodical La Revue musicale in 1920.

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) French composer whose music was of particular importance to Les Apaches, a group of musicians, writers and artists of which Stravinsky became a member in 1910.

Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments was written as a memorial for Debussy in 1920.