Pyotr Suvchinsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pyotr Suvchinsky

Ukrainian writer

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1892

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 24-Jan-1985

Profession: writer, musicologist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Pyotr Petrovich Suvchinsky (Russian: ???? ?????´??? ?????´?????), 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 Félix Blumenthal 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.