Diaghileff His Artistic and Private Life by Arnold Haskell in collaboration with Walter Nouvel
Detailed Description
Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935. Hardback. £10
Fair condition – ex library book with stamps, stickers and annotation, cover slightly torn, worn and marked.
Contents:-
Forward
Introduction : The Shade of Diaghileff, Monte Carlo – Five years after – 1934.
Part I, In Russia, 1872-1905
Chapter I. Ancestry and Childhood, 1872-1890
Chapter II. Diaghileff comes to Town, 1890-1895
Chapter III. Prelude to Adventure, 1895-1899
Chapter IV. The World of Art, 1899-1905
Chapter V. Diaghileff and Prince Wolkonsky,
1899-1900
Chapter VI. The Great Summing-Up, 1905
Part II, in Western Europe, 1905-1929
Chapter VII. Diaghileff
Chapter VIII. The Ballet and Diaghileff. The Story of an
Evolution : Part I, From Petipa to Fokine
Chapter IX. Genesis of the Russian Ballet in Western
Europe, 1908-1909
Chapter X. The Conquest of Paris and the West,
1909-1911
Chapter XI. The Eventful Years, 1911-1914
Chapter XII. Diaghileff and Nijinsky : Fact and Fiction,
1909-1917
Chapter XIII. Diaghileff and the Ballet. The Story of an
Evolution : Part II, 1909-1914
Chapter XIV. The War Years, 1914-1918
Chapter XV. Recovery and Fresh Trials, 1918-1921
Chapter XVI. The Sleeping Princess, 1921
Chapter XVII. In Search of Lost Youth, 1922-1929
Chapter XVIII. Diaghileff and the Ballet. The Story of an
Evolution : Part III, 1914-1921-1929
Chapter XIX. Death in Venice, 1929
Appendix:-
Chronology and catalogue raisonné of
Diaghileff productions
Composition of the company at various
periods
