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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]] – January 24, 1985, [[Paris]]), was a [[Russian Empire|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 (Prokofiev)|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.&nbsp;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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