I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing simple music, blamed for deserting modernism, accused of renouncing my true Russian heritage. People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried sacrilege: The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone. To them all my answer was and is the same: You respect, but I love.
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Igor Stravinsky was a 19th-century Russian composer. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music. Read more on Wikipedia →