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
thinking scotch-whisky names
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
simple artist people
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love.
music thinking bars
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
artist pigs noses
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
bar felt music understood
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I've felt it