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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia—a town now called Lomonosov, about fifty kilometers west of Saint Petersburg —on 17 June [ O.S. 5 June] 1882. [1] [2] His mother, Anna Kirillovna Stravinskaya (née Kholodovsky), came from a family of landowning noblemen, and was educated in singing and piano.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born on 17 June 1882 in Oranienbaum near Saint Petersburg in Russia. His father, Fyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky, was a well-known bass opera singer and actor, attached to the Mariinsky Theatreof St. Petersburg. His mother was Anna (née Kholodovsky) Stravinsky.
- Beginnings in Russia
- Scandal, Glory, and Misunderstanding in France
- Renewals in America
- Assessments of The Composer
- Further Reading
Stravinsky was born at Oranienbaum near St. Petersburgon June 17, 1882. Although his father was a star singer of the Imperial Opera, he rather expected the boy to become a bureaucrat. Igor finished a university law course before he made the decision to become a musician. By this time he was a good amateur pianist, an occasional professional accompa...
The great impresario Sergei Diaghilev, hearing Fireworks, recognized both the mastery and the budding originality. He at once enlisted Stravinsky to make some orchestral arrangements of Chopin for the season of Russian ballets that he was producing in Paris. Then Diaghilev assigned him bigger tasks, for which Stravinsky postponed his opera Nighting...
When he settled in the United States in 1939, Stravinsky renewed his interest in popular music longenough to compose several short pieces culminating in the Ebony Concerto (1946) for Woody Herman's band. His arrangement of the Star-spangled Banner (1944) was too severe to become a favorite. Several projects for film music were begun, and though non...
The poet Herbert Read declared in 1962 that Stravinsky was "the most representative artist of our own 20th century." The critic François Michel a year earlier gave a reason for calling him "the greatest musician of our epoch"—he was "the only one who could transform its characteristic defects, which he took upon himself, into ways of seeing the tru...
With his Autobiography (1936), Stravinsky became an important writer on music. His Poetics of Music (1942; translated by Arthur Knodel and Ingolf Dahl, 1947) is his most systematic literary work, unique among discussions of music for its authority and scope. But these books, he said later, were "much less like me, in all my faults, than my conversa...
Mar 5, 2024 · Igor Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum (now called Lomonosov) near St. Petersburg, Russia, on 17 June 1882. His father was a noted bass opera singer who performed at the Imperial Opera. Igor studied piano from age nine and, between 1903 and 1908, took private lessons from the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), the father of ...
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Apr 13, 2015 · Igor Stravinsky was born in the town of Oranienbaum, Russia, in 1882, and was raised in the city of St. Petersburg. His father was an operatic bass at the Maryinsky (now Kirov) Theatre in St. Petersburg, and his mother was an accomplished pianist.
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Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close. Stravinsky's father was an established bass opera singer, and Stravinsky grew up taking piano and music theory lessons. While studying law at the University of Saint Petersburg, he met Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and studied under him until Rimsky-Korsakov's death in 1908.
Biography. Early life, 1882–1901. Stravinsky was born on 17 June 1882 in the town of Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, 25 mi (40 km) west of Saint Petersburg.
