Robert Craft obituary

Conductor and writer who devoted much of his working life to the composer StravinskyRobert Craft, who has died aged 92, was a musician and critic of extraordinary gifts. He was a remarkably fine conductor, making two recordings of the major works of Arnold Schoenberg, alongside many recordings of Mozart, Schütz, Monteverdi, Webern and Stravinsky. Through these, and as the conductor of the Evenings on the Roof concerts and Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, he played an important role i