My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
— Igor Stravinsky Modern

Rite of Spring, modernist composer

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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

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unknown (published 1947, lectures 1939-1940)

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