"Now we will throw these mediocre kitschmongers into slavery, and teach them to venerate the German spirit and to worship the German God."
— Igor Stravinsky

January 1, 1970

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Arnold Schoenberg, regarding "the bourgeois tendencies of musical reactionaries such as Stravinsky and Ravel", in a letter to Alma Mahler, 1914 after the outbreak of war. Quoted in "Impressions of War" by Philip Clark, The Gramaphone, 4 August 2014.