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3 days ago · When the Ballets Russes traveled to Rome in April 1917, Stravinsky met the artist Pablo Picasso, and the two adventured around Italy; a commedia dell'arte they saw in Naples inspired the ballet Pulcinella, which premiered in Paris in May 1920 with designs by Picasso.
Jun 13, 2024 · Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer whose work had a revolutionary impact on musical thought and sensibility just before and after World War I, and whose compositions remained a touchstone of modernism for much of his long working life. His most notable composition was the ballet The Rite of Spring.
- Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer whose work revolutionized musical thought and sensibility in the 20th century. His fame rests on a few...
- Igor Stravinsky’s collaborations with Serge Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes, including The Firebird (1910), made him known overnight. Other composi...
- Igor Stravinsky’s father, Fyodor, was one of the leading Russian operatic basses of his day, and Igor’s mother, Anna, was a talented pianist. Igor...
- Igor Stravinsky studied law and philosophy at St. Petersburg University, from which he graduated in 1905. While studying, he showed some of his mus...
- Igor Stravinsky was always in mediocre health—he suffered from tuberculosis in the 1930s and a stroke in 1956—but he continued full-scale creative...
6 days ago · The Firebird (French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица, romanized: Zhar-ptitsa) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
6 days ago · The Rite of Spring (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
4 days ago · Stravinsky’s sublime ballet score was made popular by Diaghilev’s legendary Ballet Russes, featuring eye-catching costumes by Coco Chanel and groundbreaking choreography from George...
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Jun 11, 2024 · Stravinsky’s spectacular early ballet scores such as Le Sacre du Printemps can sometimes distract us from where this amazing artist went next. Classical music and opera expert Saul Lilienstein examines a selection of the classically inspired masterworks Stravinsky composed between 1918 and 1951.
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Jun 13, 2024 · Igor Stravinsky - Composer, Ballet, Opera: Like that of so many masters, Stravinsky’s fame rests on only a few works and one or two of his more important achievements. In The Rite of Spring he presented a new concept of music involving constantly changing rhythms and metric imbalances, a brilliantly original orchestration, and drastically ...
