One can say that for European music the innovation of Stravinsky was revolutionary because again, Stravinsky and that whole group of European composers who introduced African tone into European music. In Afternoon of a Faun and The Rite of Spring and all of that you can keep hearing, those notes, that pentatonic scale.
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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 →