Bartok was inspired by Stravinsky’s work to put a more traditional and often Baroque forms in pieces of his “middle period” such as Cantata Profana and Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta. Stravinsky’s influence waned after the rise of postwar serialism. Messiaen used techniques that were clearly Stravinsky-like, though, such as melodic fragments of different metrical lengths repeating themselves and intersecting in different ways.
