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Yekaterina Gavrilovna Stravinsky (née Nosenko) (January 25, 1881 – March 2, 1939) was a Russian and French painter and amanuensis who was the cousin and first wife of Igor Stravinsky. Born in Gorval, a village in Minsk Governorate, she spent most of her childhood in Kiev, where her mother died from tuberculosis in 1883.
In August 1905, Stravinsky announced his engagement to Yekaterina Nosenko, his first cousin whom he had met in 1890 during a family trip. He later recalled: From our first hour together we both seemed to realize that we would one day marry—or so we told each other later.
Yekaterina Gavrilovna Stravinsky was a Russian and French painter and amanuensis who was the cousin and first wife of Igor Stravinsky.
Mar 10, 2021 · We look at Stravinsky's love life, including his relationships with his wives Katya Nosenko and Vera de Bosset, as well as Coco Chanel.
First wife of Igor Stravinsky. They were cousins, knowing each other since early childhood, and were betrothed in 1905. In spite of the Orthodox Church's opposition to marriage between first cousins, they managed to marry on 23 January 1906.
On 23 January 1906,Igor Stravinsky married his cousin Yekaterina Gavrilovna Nosenko or Katya, in the face of great opposition from the Orthodox Church, to which Stravinsky belonged. They had four children, Fyodor (1907 and Ludmila (1908), Soulima (1910) and Marina Milena (1913).
One of the most radical composers of the 20th century was the son of an opera singer, who in many ways embodied the musical tradition of the 19th century. Bass Fyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky was...
