17-02-2012, 01:07
Note: this description is awful and pretentious, do not put any weight into it
It'd be hard to imagine the direction classical would have gone in were it not for Starvinsky. The man asn't at all concerned with conventions and tossed the "rulebook" of music aside to do whatever the hell he pleased. His compositions were so ahead of their time, in fact, that when his "Le Sacre du Printmeps" debuted for the first time in 1913, it incited a riot. A freakin riot! Has any other musician been able to do that
Even today, after seeing the likes of Feldman, Cage, Penderecki, etc, his compositions are still as brilliant and evocative as they were back in 1913. Stravinsky was a rare breed; a visionary
It'd be hard to imagine the direction classical would have gone in were it not for Starvinsky. The man asn't at all concerned with conventions and tossed the "rulebook" of music aside to do whatever the hell he pleased. His compositions were so ahead of their time, in fact, that when his "Le Sacre du Printmeps" debuted for the first time in 1913, it incited a riot. A freakin riot! Has any other musician been able to do that
Even today, after seeing the likes of Feldman, Cage, Penderecki, etc, his compositions are still as brilliant and evocative as they were back in 1913. Stravinsky was a rare breed; a visionary