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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore 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.
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano... (more Igor Stravinsky quotes)
Is generally regarded as the father of "modern" classical music; a riot ensued at the 1913 premiere of his ballet Le Sacre du Primtemps.
Recorded a number of his works with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra in the 1960s, all of which he conducted.
Settled in the United States in 1939 after having become a French citizen in 1934. Became a U. S. citizen in 1946.
Was very much opposed to 12-tone writing, or serialism, early in his career, then turned to that style of composition in the 1950s.
He ... (more Igor Stravinsky trivia)
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