Vera de Bosset
Vera de Bosset Stravinsky (January 7, 1889
Life
Vera de Bosset was born Vera Bosse, the daughter of Eduard Bosse (1854–1927)
Stravinsky met Vera in 1921. She was a dancer and the wife of the painter and stage designer
In September 1939, Stravinsky arrived in America to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vera followed in January 1940; they were married in Bedford, Massachusetts on March 9.[7]
After Stravinsky's death in 1971, Vera continued to live in the New York apartment they had bought shortly before his death. She died in 1982 and is buried with Stravinsky in Venice's Isola di San Michele.
See also
References
- Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship, Craft, Robert, Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press. 1994. ISBN 0-8265-1258-5
- von Ruckteschell Family papers, taken care of by Georg Bosse, Kentucky, USA.
- ISBN 978-1-84379-753-1, p. 154), Robert Craft recalls that "after an emotionally and physically exhausting day...Vera abruptly announced that she could not keep up, and that she was four years older than the dates on her passport." This would mean her true birth date was 1/7/1885, and her age at death 97.
- ^ Die Nachkommen des Kantors, Schulmeisters und Hilfspredigers an der St. Petri-Gemeinde in St. Petersburg Sebastian Bosse (1697-1775), in: Baltische Ahnen- und Stammtafeln Sonderheft 12 (Köln 1976), p. 10
- ISSN 2193-164X, p. 338
- ^ However, in Craft 2013, p. 154, Robert Craft describes Vera as being born "to a French father and Swedish mother, neither with any Russian blood."
- ^ "BBC - Radio 3 - Classical/Tchaikovsky & Stravinsky/A-Z. Letter V for Vera Stravinsky". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
- ISBN 978-0-300-07537-3.
- ^ White, Eric Walter in "Stravinsky, Igor (Fyodorovich)" in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The. (London: Macmillan, 1985), vol. 18, p.254.