The Apollonian Clockwork

I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole, Igor Stravinsky remarked at the end of a long and restless career, and that is exactly what the authors of The Apollonian Clockwork do. In 1982, convinced that there is no essential difference between early and late Stravinsky, Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schnberger were the first to write a monograph on the composer which radically breaks with the habit of dividing his works into Russian, neoclassical and serial. In an essay which continually shifts in its approach, style and perspective, the authors elaborate on their insight that a single, immutable compositional attitude underlies the whole of Stravinskys oeuvre. By this token the book not only offers an analysis of the composers protean work and artistry but takes example by it as well.