Igor Stravinsky vs. Dmitri Shostakovich
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Igor Stravinsky
1882 – 1971
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French 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.
"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead."
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906 – 1975
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
"You ask if I would have been different without "Party guidance"? Yes, almost certainly. No doubt the line I was pursuing when I wrote the Fourth Symphony would …"
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