Craft, Robert (1923– )

US conductor and writer on music. From 1948 he was closely associated with Igor Stravinsky, and influenced his conversion to serial technique in the early 1950s. He collaborated with Stravinsky in recording his music, and was the first to record the complete works of Anton Webern. He also recorded much of Arnold Schoenberg's music.

He studied at the Juilliard School, New York. At Santa Fe in 1963 he conducted the first US performance of Alban Berg's opera Lulu (two-act version). With Stravinsky he compiled six volumes of ‘conversations’ (1959–69). Other books include Stravinsky in Photographs and Documents (1976).