Igor Stravinsky's published writings and conversations give readers a composer's view of modern music, performance, aesthetics and his own career. Poetics of Music, based on lectures, discusses composition, tradition, order and the idea of musical invention in compact, argumentative form. An Autobiography recounts his early life, the Ballets Russes years and works such as The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, though it is shaped by Stravinsky's own retrospective self-presentation. Later conversation books produced with Robert Craft range across other composers, conducting, religion and twentieth-century culture. The prose is sharp and opinionated rather than neutral music history. These books fit composer memoir, music aesthetics and twentieth-century modernism, especially for readers interested in how Stravinsky explained his own changing style. Read more Less
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