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Igor Stravinsky. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky [a] (17 June [ O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music .
May 1, 2024 · The Rite of Spring: Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts. The Rite of Spring, ballet by Russian modernist composer Igor Stravinsky that premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris on May 29, 1913. It is considered one of the first examples of Modernism in music and is noted for its brutality, its barbaric rhythms, and its dissonance.
Apr 7, 1971 · Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky was born in a suburb of St. Petersburg—Oranienbaum, a village where his parents were spending the summer—on June 17, 1882: St. Igor's Day. He was the third of four ...
Jun 17, 2020 · I’d become a Stravinsky fan ever since hearing Zvi play his “Duo Concertante” at his debut recital 11 years earlier. The composition contrasted with the other classical works on the program ...
Igor Stravinsky was the leading composer in the first decades of 20th Century. With his contribution to musical literature by his innovative technical usages as asymmetric rhythmic patterns, dry sound, dissonance usage, new harmonization techniques, direct expression and a different dimension on orchestration, Stravinsky redefined the understanding of music in an esthetical manner thorough his ...
By DONAL HENAHAN. Igor Stravinsky, the composer whose "Le Sacre du Printemps" exploded in the face of the music world in 1913 and blew it into the 20th century, died of heart failure yesterday. The Russian-born musician, 88 years old, had been in frail health for years but had been released from Lenox Hill Hospital in good condition only a week ...
Unlike most ballets, The Rite of Spring doesn’t tell a particularly coherent story. It is in two parts. Over the course of Part I, which is entitled “Adoration of the Earth,” members of Roerich and Stravinsky’s imagined pagan tribe engage in a variety of rituals and games. In Part II, “The Sacrifice,” a young girl is selected as the ...
