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Yekaterina Gavrilovna Stravinsky [a] ( née Nosenko) [b] (January 25, 1881 [c] – March 2, 1939) was a Russian and French [3] 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.
- Yekaterina Gavrilovna Nosenko, January 25, 1881, Gorval, Rechitsky Uyezd, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
- Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
- March 2, 1939 (aged 58), Paris, France
Yekaterina Gavrilovna Stravinsky was a Russian and French painter and amanuensis who was the cousin and first wife of Igor Stravinsky. Introduction Yekaterina Stravinsky Biography Early life Ustilug First meeting with Stravinsky and growing affection Wedding and early marriage Switzerland and France Crises emerge Vera Chronic illness, final ...
Vera de Bosset. Vera de Bosset in 1924 by Serge Sudeikin. Vera de Bosset Stravinsky (January 7, 1889 [1] – September 17, 1982) was an American dancer and artist. She is better known as the second wife of composer Igor Stravinsky, whom she married in 1940 after having been in an adulterous affair with him since July 1921.
Symphony in C (Stravinsky) The Symphony in C is an orchestral work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky . The Symphony was written between 1938 and 1940 on a commission from American philanthropist Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. It was a turbulent period of the composer's life, marked by illness and deaths in his immediate family.
- His Father Was A Famous Bass in The Imperial Theaters
- He Became A Composer Thanks to Rimsky-Korsakov
- He Became Famous in Europe Thanks to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
- He Brought About An Art Revolution
- He Had Three Main Periods in His Artistic Life
- He Was One of The Most Prolific Composers Ever
- He Had Fantastic Charisma
- He Composed Works For The New York City Ballet
- After The Bolshevik Revolution, He Lived in France and The U.S.
- Stravinsky's Works Were Banned in The USSR
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 awarded the rare title of an Honored Artist of the Imperial Theaters, in which he had served for a quarter of a century. He had 59 operas in his repertoire....
The composer often described Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov as his second father. Having entered - at the insistence of his family - the law faculty of St. Petersburg University, Stravinsky never had any formal music education. Rimsky-Korsakov discerned his original gift, dissuaded him from entering the Conservatory, and for two years gave him private les...
A truly transformative part in Stravinsky's life was played by Sergei Diaghilev, an impresario famous for promoting Russian art in Europe and America. After the first "Russian season" in Paris, he was looking for a piece that could surpass the triumph of the previous program. Choosing the Russian fairy tale about the Firebird for the plot, Diaghile...
May 29, 1913, is considered to be the starting point of the modern era in arts. That was the day of the first performance of The Rite of Spring, produced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russescompany in Paris. Later the production’s creative team - Diaghilev, Stravinsky, artist Nicholas Roerich, choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky - would turn against each other,...
Stravinsky's musical career is traditionally divided into three stages. Its first decades are usually referred to as the Russian period, as the composer studied Russian folklore and experimented with its forms. The first ballets were followed by Les noces, Renard, the opera Mavraand others. Then Stravinsky devoted several decades to neoclassicism, ...
Stravinsky was one of the most prolific composers. His oeuvre includes over 7,500 pages of musical scores. He could work for 18 hours a day. His standard working day - even in old age – was 10 hours.
Like his parents, Stravinsky was an attractive figure for those around him, an incredibly charming interlocutor. He was friends with, among others, members of "Les Six", Claude Debussy, Marcel Proust, Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel and Charlie Chaplin.
Stravinsky's long-term collaboration with the famous choreographer of Russian-Georgian descent George Balanchine, has been compared to the equally fruitful collaboration between Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. Their first joint production - Apollon musagete (also known as Apollo) that was staged in 1928 by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes– was followed by...
Because of his wife's tuberculosis, the Stravinskys spent every winter in Switzerland. That was where they were when World War I broke out. After the 1917 revolution, the composer decided not to return to Russia. All his savings had been left in Russia and the family, which had four children, had to live in rather strained financial circumstances f...
The end of the "love affair" between Russian avant-garde artists and the Soviet regime in the late 1920s put an end to the composer's career in the USSR. It was only during the Khrushchev Thaw, in 1962, when - to mark the composer's 80th birthday - Stravinsky was invited to give concerts in Moscow and Leningrad. Legend has it that the Soviet leader...
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Nov 22, 1979 · Robert Craft (1923–2015) was a conductor and writer. Craft’s close working friendship with Igor Stravinsky is the subject of his memoir, An Improbable Life. In 2002 he was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival. Catherine Nossenko Stravinsky, first wife of the composer, is not mentioned by name in the three ...
Jan 30, 2018 · This was a multi-lingual, family-oriented, hospitable household with the welcome firmly established by Stravinsky’s wife, Yekaterina. Stravinsky was a cultured intellectual, and friends with leading artists, writers, philosophers, composers and musicians of his time. His wife had been a singer and fine musician.
