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Igor Stravinsky
said
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
— 1962, quoted in Andriessen and Schoenberger, The Apollonian Clockwork (1989). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Igor Stravinsky
Russian, French, and American composer (1882–1971)
- Fame85.1
- Momentum21.3
- France rank#24
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Updated 2026-07-17
The Rite of Spring nearly started a riot at its 1913 premiere, and Stravinsky spent the next half-century proving that shock wasn't luck. He rewrote the rules of rhythm, then abandoned his own style twice more—Russian folklore, then neoclassical forms, then twelve-tone serialism—leaving each genre transformed.
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Born into a musical family in Saint Petersburg in 1882, Stravinsky studied law before Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov took him on as a pupil. Impresario Sergei Diaghilev commissioned three ballets for Paris—The Firebird, Petrushka, and the scandalous Rite of Spring—that made him a name by 1913. He moved through three distinct periods: Russian folk-inflected works like Les noces, a neoclassical stretch drawing on Greek myth and sonata form (Apollon musagète, Oedipus rex), and finally a serial phase adopting twelve-tone technique in pieces like In Memoriam Dylan Thomas. The constant reinvention baffled…
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Sourced, dated quotes from Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
said
My music is best understood by children and animals.
— Igor Stravinsky. The Observer, Oct 8, 1961.
Igor Stravinsky
said
As for myself, I need music for hygienic purposes, for the health of my soul. Without music in its best sense there is chaos.
— The Musical Digest (1946)
Igor Stravinsky
saidundated
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.
— Igor Stravinsky. "Subject: Music", New York Times Magazine, 9/27/64.
Igor Stravinsky
saidundated
The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co-ordination between man [sic] and time.
— Quoted in DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. , Ch. 3. from Igor
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- Histoire du Soldat1987
- Bizet: Symphony in C / Prokofiev: "Classical" Symphony / Stravinsky: Pulcinella1987
- Der Feuervogel (Suite) / Le Sacre du Printemps1987
- Mussorgsky orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition / Stravinsky: Pétrouchka1986
- Le Sacre du printemps / Apollo1986
- The Russian Cello1986
- Music for String Orchestra1986
- Liszt: Sonata in B minor / Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 / Stravinsky: Petrouchka1986
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Momentum21.3
Historical26.6
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Source confidence75.0
Completeness85.0
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