What is Stravinsky's core musical philosophy?
My philosophy is quite simple: music is supremely a matter of order and discipline. It is not an outpouring of sentiment, a confessional exercise. The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free. True freedom lies not in unrestrained expression, but in the mastery of a craft, the imposition of form upon chaos. Think of the fugues of Bach, the symphonies of Mozart—these are monuments of construction, not emotional diaries. My own work, from the primitivist fervor of *Petrushka* to the crystalline structures of later compositions, is an effort to build, to order sound with intention.
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