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    Igor Stravinsky

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    The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. ↗


    — Igor Stravinsky

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    To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. ↗


    — Igor Stravinsky

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    What force is more potent than love? ↗


    — Igor Stravinsky

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    What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. ↗


    — Igor Stravinsky

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    Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos? ↗


    — Igor Stravinsky

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    Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. ↗


    — Igor Stravinsky

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    Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. ↗


    — Igor Stravinsky

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    Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? ↗


    — Igor Stravinsky

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    By the late 1920s and 1930s the use by composers of neoclassicism had become widespread. Other pieces from the Russian period include: Le Rossignol (The Nightingale); Renard (1916); Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) (1918); and Les noces (The Wedding) (1923). From then until his wife's death in 1939 Stravinsky led a double life spending some time with his first family and the rest with Vera.

    S. His "Russian phase" was followed in the 1920s by a period in which he turned to neoclassical music. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso fugue and symphony).

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