Ildfuglen igor stravinsky biography
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Biography
There are easier composers to whistle than Stravinsky, but few better to quote.
Ildfuglen igor stravinsky biography
His thinking was witty, thought-provoking, sometimes deliberately evasive, and, at its best, profound. ‘The trouble with music appreciation in general,’ he said, ‘is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.’ Stravinsky is still best known for the revolutionary primitivism of his ballet score The Rite of Spring (1913), which famously sparked a riot at its first performance in Paris.
But during the course of a long career, Stravinksy composed an astonishingly wide variety of music. His styles included the neoclassicism of Pulcinella, the 12-note serialism of Threni, the post-Serialist satire of The Flood and the neo-Renaissance colours of Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa.
A number of works, such as his 1951 opera The Rake’s Progress, use a combination of pastiche and original techniques. Yet Stravinsky’s voice is among the most instan