num_pages: 180
description: While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this book-the composer's first-we hear from the man himself. An Autobiography chronicles the first half-century of Stravinsky's life, all the while offering his opinions and "abhorrences." A Parsifal performance at Bayreuth? "At the end of a quarter of an hour I could bear no more." Nijinsky? "The poor boy knew nothing of music." Spanish folk music? "Endless preliminary chords of guitar playing."
language: English
title: An Autobiography
titlecomplete: An Autobiography
genres: Biography, Classical Music, Music, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Art, Russia
ratings_count: 253
publisher: Calder and Boyars