Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinskywas a Russian-French-American composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth17 June 1882
CityLomonosov, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
notes composer
Composers combine notes, that's all.
music appreciation humorous
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
zoos animal royal
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
love essence succeed
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
starting-over becoming principles
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
path
To continue in one path is to go backward.
real thinking awareness
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
needs would-be music-is
I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
creating hands faculty
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
religious exercise years
I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
improvisation composition selective
Composition is selective improvisation.
children animal classical-music
My music is best understood by children and animals.
inspiration men profound
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being
claims snob familiar
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.