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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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