In addition, Kirk Varnedoe, director, and Kynaston McShine in the deВ partment of painting and Clive Philpot, the librarian, have been unfailВ ingly helpful. The backing of William Rubin, director emeritus of the museum and most assiduous of Picasso scholars, has been especially heartening.

Gratitude also to my friends at the Museum of Modern Art for their coВ operation. In supplying photographs, untiring efforts to satisfy the needs of the book were made by Maria Teresa Ocana, the director, and Margarita Ferrer at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, MontВ serrat Blanch at the Arxiu Mas and Caroline de Lambertye at the RГ©union des MusГ©es Nationaux, Paris. The librarian, FranГ§ois Chapon, and staff of the BibliothГЁque LittГ©raire Jacques Doucet have likewise been of great service. I am enormously indebted to Dominique Bozo, the first curator-inВ charge of the MusГ©e Picasso, who was unfailingly supportive to his sucВ cessors, Pierre Georgel and GГ©rard RГ©gnier to Marie-Laure BesnardBernadac for scholarly assistance of inestimable value also to Brigitte LГ©al, Laurence Berthon-Marceillac, Christine Piot, MichГЁle Richet and HГ©lГЁne Seckel, for solving any number of problems. Thanks, also, to the artistвЂ™s children: Claude and Paloma and her husband, Rafael Lopez Sanchez to his daughter-in-law, Christine Picasso to his nephew, Javier VilatГґ to his family in Malaga, Manuel Blasco and Ricardo Huelin and to JacquelineвЂ™s daughter, Catherine Hutin-Blay, for all their help. So long as Pablo Picasso and his wife, Jacqueline, were alive, they gave me every encouragement in this project. Barcelona, 1899Charcoal on paper, 47x53.2cm. Manufactured in the United States of America 98765432ДЇrontispiece: Picasso. P5R56 1991 709вЂ™-2-dc20 89-42915Дesigned and typeset by Michael Raebum/KY Books & Art Illustrations reproduced by 4most Colour Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Richardson, John A life of Picasso / John Richardson p. Owing to limitations of space, all acknowledgments of permission to reprint previously published material and to use illustrations will be found following the index. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. SPADEM All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Illustrations of works by Picasso copyright В© 1991 ARS N.Y. The first two performances of Alma Deutscher's Cinderella are sold out, but the opera will run at Vienna's Casino Baumgarten concert hall into the New Year.Copyright В© 1991 by John Richardson Fine Arts Ltd. 'I love Mozart very much, he's probably my favourite composer, but I don't really like it when people call me 'Little Miss Mozart' because I don't like being called 'little', I'm very big, and secondly, if I just wrote everything Mozart wrote again it would be boring. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, probably the world's most famous child prodigy, began composing aged five and was also 11 when he wrote his first opera.Д«ut Alma Deutscher says she does not want to be known as another Mozart. 'I don't like being called little'Д¬omparisons with Mozart are inevitable. The couple, realising their young daughter's prodigious talent, moved the family to Surrey to be closer to the Yehudi Menuhin School in Cobham, where Alma takes piano and violin lessons. Her father, Guy Deutscher, is an internationally renowned linguist and amateur flautist, while her mother Janie was an organ scholar at Oxford. 'For example, a few days ago when I was in bed resting in the middle of the night then I got this beautiful melody.'ДЄlma was able to pick out the notes on a piano at age two and at age three her parents gave her her first violin.

'But when I am resting or even in bed or skipping with my rope, then melodies stream into my head. 'The funny thing is that when I try to get beautiful melodies and it usually never comes and my mind just goes blank,' she said. She explained to America's Today Show that moments of inspiration often struck her when holding her skipping rope. She composed her first opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, at age seven and gained national recognition when it only narrowly missed out on a place in the final of a contest for adults, held by the English National Opera.

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