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RE: Permanent--OK. In my book, that leaves open "For better, or worse?"

John, I must disagree. The influence was very much the other way around - Prokofiev was very influenced by Stravinsky, as has just about every composer after Stravinsky. Prokofiev studied Stravinsky's scores a great deal, and was very jealous of him and his success. Stravinsky was much like his close friend Pablo Picasso - he could do anything, in any style, with ease; and like Picasso, still had incredible vitality and creativity until his dying day. Only Mozart is really comparable to him in all of music history in this respect - being able to write in pretty much every musical form. Stravinsky's influence on music, especially in the areas of rhythm and harmony, has been far beyond Prokofiev's, or Debussy's, for that matter. I do agree with you that Messiaen is underrated, though he will not approach Stravinsky's status.

Stravinsky's book, Poetics of Music, has also been very influential in the world of aesthetics.

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