Pyotr Suvchinsky

{{short description|Russian patron of the arts and writer}} {{no footnotes|date=January 2013}} {{Eurasianism}} '''Pyotr Petrovich Suvchinsky''' ({{langx|pl|Piotr Suwczyński}}, {{langx|ru|Пётр Петро́вич Сувчи́нский}}), later known as '''Pierre Souvtchinsky''' (October 5, 1892, St-Petersburg – January 24, 1985, Paris), was a Russian artistic patron and writer on music. The heir to a sugar fortune, he took piano lessons from Felix Blumenfeld and initially hoped to become an operatic tenor. He was the patron and co-publisher of the Saint Petersburg musical journal ''Muzikalniy sovremennik'' founded in 1915. He was a friend of Nikolai Myaskovsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky, and was the real author of the book ''La poétique musicale'', published as by Stravinsky. (Prokofiev dedicated his Piano Sonata No. 5 to Suvchinsky.) Suvchinsky emigrated from Russia in 1922 and lived in Berlin and Sofia, where he founded the Russian-Bulgarian Publishing House; then in Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was still active in musical circles and a champion of the music of Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez in the post-war period; he was a co-founder, with Boulez and Jean-Louis Barrault, of the Domaine musical concert series.

==References== * Richard Taruskin, ''Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions'' (Oxford University Press, 1996), especially pp. 1120–1134. * {{in lang|fr}} Éric Humbertclaude (ed.), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_G2vpKRK_OkC&q=pierre+souvtchinski+cahiers+d%27%C3%A9tude Pierre Souvtchinski, cahiers d'étude]'' (Harmattan, 2006). {{ISBN|2-296-01208-6}}.

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