# Pyotr Suvchinsky

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{{short description|Russian patron of the arts and writer}}
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'''Pyotr Petrovich Suvchinsky''' ({{langx|pl|Piotr Suwczyński}}, {{langx|ru|Пётр Петро́вич Сувчи́нский}}), later known as '''Pierre Souvtchinsky''' (October 5, 1892, [St-Petersburg](/source/St-Petersburg) – January 24, 1985, [Paris](/source/Paris)), was a [Russian](/source/Russian_Empire) artistic patron and writer on music. The heir to a sugar fortune, he took piano lessons from [Felix Blumenfeld](/source/Felix_Blumenfeld) and initially hoped to become an operatic tenor. He was the patron and co-publisher of the [Saint Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg) musical journal ''Muzikalniy sovremennik'' founded in 1915. He was a friend of [Nikolai Myaskovsky](/source/Nikolai_Myaskovsky), [Sergei Prokofiev](/source/Sergei_Prokofiev) and [Igor Stravinsky](/source/Igor_Stravinsky), and was the real author of the book ''La poétique musicale'', published as by Stravinsky. (Prokofiev dedicated his [Piano Sonata No. 5](/source/Piano_Sonata_No._5_(Prokofiev)) to Suvchinsky.) Suvchinsky emigrated from Russia in 1922 and lived in [Berlin](/source/Berlin) and [Sofia](/source/Sofia), where he founded the Russian-Bulgarian Publishing House; then in [Paris](/source/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](/source/Olivier_Messiaen) and [Pierre Boulez](/source/Pierre_Boulez) in the post-war period; he was a co-founder, with Boulez and [Jean-Louis Barrault](/source/Jean-Louis_Barrault), of the [Domaine musical](/source/Domaine_musical) concert series.

==References==
* [Richard Taruskin](/source/Richard_Taruskin), ''Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions'' (Oxford University Press, 1996), especially pp. 1120–1134.
* {{in lang|fr}} [Éric Humbertclaude](/source/%C3%89ric_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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