Stravinsky by Stephen Walsh

Stephen Walsh is a critic and musicologist. He is the author of a number of books on composers ranging from Schumann to Bartók. The first volume of this biography, Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France 1882–1934, was published in 1999. Walsh teaches at Cardiff University.

Widely regarded the greatest composer of the 20th century, Igor Stravinsky was central to the development of modernism in art. In this revealing volume, the first of two, Walsh follows Stravinsky from his birth in 1882 to 1934.