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
tuning tunes harps
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
pieces music-is comment
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
dream criticism goya
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
impulse music-is succession
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
pulse beats rhythm
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
dream inspiration artist
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.