Of the composers whose work was in the original Fantasia (1940), Stravinsky was the only one living at the time. Paul Dukas ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice") had died five years earlier.
[George] Gershwin is supposed to have come to me in Paris and to have asked me how much I would charge to give him lessons. I am then supposed to have asked how much he earned, and after he had supposedly said $100,000 a year, my supposed reply was,...
Gemini
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Oranienbaum, St. Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire [now Lomonosov, Leningrad Oblast, Russia]
(age 88)
New York City, New York, USA