My fairly extensive - and, analytically, intensive - writings about Stravinsky confine themselves to his music and the psychology of his creativity - to the products and the nature of his towering genius. About the human being I have never yet written a word: the greater the genius the less there is of a causal connection or correlation between his life and his art - whence Beethoven came to be the communicator of profound, unmixed joy:

LRB 30 December 1982 | PDF Download