num_pages: 188
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: Autobiography, Music, Classical Music, Russia, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 253
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company