Gabriel Astruc papers, 1904-1925, 1907-1914 (bulk)

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Creator

Astruc, Gabriel, 1864-1938.

Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division

Extent

• 123 folders (ca. 1,300 items)

Scope/Contents Notes

Correspondence including telegrams, copies of outgoing letters, and some typed transcripts of telegrams and letters, inventories, financial papers, notes and plans, clippings, programs, announcements, and drafts of contracts and reports relating primarily to the early activities of Sergei Diaghilev in bringing Russian ballet and opera to Western Europe. Between 1907 and 1913 Diaghilev collaborated with Astruc regarding the organization of his various artistic enterprises, including the Paris seasons of ballet and opera, negotiations for tours to the United States and South America, summer performances at Deauville in 1912, and a ballet season in Lyons in 1913. Documentation of the first Saison Russe presented by Diaghilev at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris in 1909 is particularly thorough and includes inventories of costumes and scenery for the workspresented and a confidential report on the season which Astruc sent to Baron Frederiks, Chief Minister of the Russian Imperial Court. Astruc's dealings with Ida Rubinstein and Natasha Trouhanova regarding enterprises undertaken independent of Diaghilev are also documented.

Major correspondents are Gabriel Astruc and his firm, LaSociété Musicale G. Astruc & Cie; Robert Brussel, Eugène Cornuché, Claude Debussy, Serge Diaghilev, Countess Greffuhle, Baron Dmitri Günzburg, Reynaldo Hahn, Jules Martin, Vittorio Mingardi, Pierre Monteux, Vaslav Nijinsky,Anna Pavlova, Ida Rubinstein, Fëdor Chaliapin, Boris Shidlovskiĭ, and Natasha Trouhanova.

Biographical/Historical Note

French impresario, publisher, journalist, and Director of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Paris) in 1913.

Controlled Access Terms

• Astruc, Gabriel, 1864-1938.
• Châtelet (Theater : Paris, France)
• Ballets russes.
• Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
• Ballet -- France -- Lyon.
• Ballet -- France -- Paris.
• Ballet -- France -- Deauville.
• Ballet -- United States.
• Ballet -- South America.
• Ballet -- Soviet Union.
• Ballet -- Costume.
• Ballet -- Stage-setting and scenery.
• Opera -- France -- Paris.
• Opera -- Soviet Union.
• Theaters -- France -- Paris.
• Journalists.
• Publishers and publishing.
• Impresarios.
• Theatrical producers and directors.
• Manuscripts -- Collections.

Additional Creator Names

• Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929.
• Frederiks, Vladimir Borisovich, Baron, 1845?-1929.
• Rubinstein, Ida, 1885?-1960.
• Trouhanova, Natasha.
• Brussel, Robert.
• Cornuché, Eugène.
• Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.
• Greffulhe, Elisabeth, comtesse, 1860-1952.
• Günzburg, Dmitri, Baron.
• Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947.
• Martin, Jules.
• Mingardi, Vittorio.
• Monteux, Pierre, 1875-1964.
• Nijinsky, Waslaw, 1890-1950.
• Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931.
• Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich, 1873-1938.
• Shidlovskiĭ, A. B.
• Société Musicale G. Astruc & Cie.