Stravinsky where to start with his music
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His music started a riot and was chosen by Disney to create the world. He collaborated with Picasso and Auden and influenced composers from Boulez to Tavener. Twentieth-century music is unimaginable without Stravinsky
Of the composers who spearheaded modernism in music at the beginning of the 20th century, it has been Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) whose influence has proved the most enduring and pervasive. While Stravinsky’s own music radically changed direction twice during his 70-year career – so radically, in fact, that his works of each phase could easily have been written by different composers – without him 20th-century music could have followed a very different course. Continue reading...
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