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  • Chapter 5 - Orthodoxies and Unorthodoxies: Stravinsky’s Spiritual Journey

  • from Part I - Russia and Identity
  • Edited by Graham Griffiths, City, University of London
  • Book:
    Stravinsky in Context
    Published online:
    03 December 2020
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 42-49

  • Summary

    Stravinsky’s spiritual trajectory is an essential part of his complex artistic makeup and his work cannot be understood without taking it into account. While this may initially seem paradoxical given Stravinsky’s standing as an arch-modernist, his relationship with religion, while it varied in kind over the course of his life, was extremely strong and closely interwoven with other aspects of his character, in particular his connection with the culture of his native Russia. Not that this should be unexpected. As Peter Gay has pointed out, ‘The psychological turn of a modernist towards a lost emotional home should surprise only those who equate modernism with atheism. … It does not follow, then, that Stravinsky abandoned originality while he searched, as he put it, for order.’1