Download 73.98 MB Igor Stravinsky, the 20th-century's most famous composer, died fifty years ago on 6th April 1971. Though something of a late starter, he quickly made up for it: by the age of 31, he was the composer of The Rite of Spring (1913) and the face of modern music. Just seven years later, he began to write in a neoclassical style that puzzled many of his admirers and influenced all the others. Then, in the last decade of his composing career, he took up 12-tone serialism. Born in Russia, he became a French citizen, and died an American. We talk about Stravinsky's music with