Subject: Re: A good composer
From: Eldad Tsabary (tazberry_docs@yahoo.ca)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 15:50:42 EST
Hmmm. As far as I know.
It comes from a letter to Yates, so I think it likely.
Nonetheless, it's always possible that Stravinsky said or wrote it
somewhere else, but I don't know of such an occasion or writing.
Best
Eldad
Peter Castine wrote:
> Is that the only source for the quote?
>
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> On 13-Dec-2007, at 20:53, Eldad Tsabary wrote:
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>> A correction, you should look in Peter Yates's /Twentieth-Century
>> Music/ (New York: Minerva Press, 1967), not Salzman's
>> Cheers
>> Eldad
>>
>>
>> PerMagnus Lindborg wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> Does anyone know the exact reference (publication, interview,
>>> yearŠ?) to Stavinsky's famous quote:
>>> "A good composer does not imitate, he steals."?
>>> Did he express it in English?
>>> PerMagnus
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