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Stravinsky was a composer frequently given to announcing music's independence from the other artsin particular, its independence from literature. 'In general', he wrote in a well-known screed of , 'I consider that music is only able to solve musical problems; and nothing else, neither the literary nor the picturesque, can be in music of any real interest.'  Almost forty years later he still defined music in anti-literary terms, asserting (in an article for the official newspaper of the Communist Youth League, of all things): 'The language of music is a special language; it is not the same as the language of literature.'  Yet Stravinsky had come of age in a society that positively revered literature, a society that looked upon its writers with quasi-messianic hopes. To be sure, that society was an exclusive one; at the time of the composer's birth in , the majority of Stravinsky's compatriots could not write their own names, let alone grapple with the complicated syntax and philosophical heft of The Brothers Karamazov, which had been published two years before. But the rarefied community of the imperial Russian intelligentsia was among the most literate societies on earth,

Author

Emily Frey

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN