Stravinskianadj.n.

1947 D. Milhaud in Stravinsky's Poetics of Music p. xi The Poetics of Music brings to light the indissoluble relationship between the two aspects of the Stravinskyan temperament: that is, his music and his philosophy.

1958 Times 22 Feb. 3/7 Wishart had absorbed his Stravinskian predilection.

1962 Times 29 Mar. 8/5 Sir William, whose attitude to critics is Stravinskyan..is ready to forecast critical reactions to his work.

1968 Listener 1 Aug. 153/2 Britten's exuberant cantata..is informed by a Stravinskian economy of gesture and dramatic style.

1978 Gramophone July 174/1 The second [movement is] a sonata—very Stravinskian yet it could not be by Stravinsky but only by Malcolm Williamson.

1925 F. Toye Well-tempered Musician iii. 74 Stravinsky himself was put up to defend Tchaikowsky, at whom all the Stravinskians..had been constantly sneering for years.

1924 C. Gray Surv. Contemp. Mus. 132 The devotees of the Russian ballet, the Stravinskyites, seek the satisfaction of normal human activities in art.

1949 G. F. Knight in Penguin Music Mag. IX. 82 The majority of the musical world divided into two irreconcilable camps: the Stravinskyites and the Anti-Stravinskyites.

1961 Times 12 Apr. 6/5 Elsewhere all praise—and a rap on the knuckles for all those Stravinskyites who stayed at home.