And the second best Warner Bros composer, just after Rossini.
[splutter...] How can you have forgotten "What's Opera, Doc?"
You could make a game out of this: spot the composer.
I've even heard some Stravinsky in a Bugs Bunny cartoon; it was something from The Firebird.
They sure don't make 'em like they used to.
He was Polish, despite his parisian history, hence his famous mazurkas.
To be clear, leaving aside his 'passport' status, he had a French father and a Polish mother. And it's interesting that he made no attempt to ever return to Poland after he'd arrived in Paris as a very young man. I think the French and Polish can make more or less equivalent claims on him.
It was a joke (I think); like saying "Mozart was the greatest Italian Opera composer." (Also true, imho).
Sometimes I wish that HN had a "+1, Funny" button like Slashdot does.