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Also known as Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, Stravinsky, Igor Strawinski, Igor Strawinsky, Igor Stravinskii, Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky, Jgor Strawinsky, Igor Strawinskij

Russian composer (1882–1971)

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Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer (1882–1971) who created influential works across multiple musical styles throughout his long career. He matters because his compositions significantly shaped modern classical music and continue to be widely performed and studied today.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1882
Died
1971
Works
384

Top works

  • Die Geschichte vom Soldaten
  • Symphony of Psalms; Symphony No 10 ; Liturgical Symphony
  • Retrospectives and Conclusion
  • 5 Easy Pieces for Piano Duet
  • Stravinsky, I Renard a Burlesque to Be Sung and Acted TTBB/Orch Pf/vs

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Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer, conductor and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most influential 20th century composers. His ballets The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, originally produced in Paris by Sergei Diaghilev, garnered him international fame. The latter ballet famously caused a riot in the audience, that is wrongly attributed to its unusual artistic approach. It…

Known for

  • Stravinsky in Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2014
  • For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes — Self - Composer (archive footage)2009
  • The Memories of Angels — Self (archive footage)2008
  • Stravinsky: Once at a Border... — Self (archive footage)1982
  • A Stravinsky Portrait — Self1967
  • Stravinsky — Himself1966
  • The Creative Performer1960

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660,918
Total plays
8,906,866

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Classicalcontemporary classicalrussian20th Century Classicalcomposers

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Igor Stravinsky (Russian pre-reform: Игорь Ѳедоровичъ Стравинскій) (17th June 1882 – 6th April 1971) was a Russian composer who first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet): L'Oiseau de feu ("The Firebird") (1910), Petrushka (1911), and Le sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") (1913). Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Igor+Stravinsky">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan
1882–1971
Nationality
US, RU, FR, CH, SU
Role / Field
Pianistes, Compositeurs, Composers, Composer, Chefs dorchestre, Composition musique
Language
rus, fre, eng
Gender
Male

Recorded by 42 libraries

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Quotes

  • As for myself, I need music for hygienic purposes, for the health of my soul. Without music in its best sense there is chaos. For my part, music is a force which gives reason to things, a force which creates organization, which attunes things. Music probably attended the creation of the universe.
  • I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing “simple” music, blamed for deserting “modernism,” accused of renouncing my “true Russian heritage.” People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried “sacrilege”: “The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone.” To them all my answer was and is the same: You “respect,” but I love.
  • My music is best understood by children and animals.
  • One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
  • The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
  • The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co-ordination between man [sic] and time.

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Igor Stravinsky
date of birth
1882-06-05
date of death
1971-00-00
name in native language
Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский
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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Igor Stravinsky, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Article

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French (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.

Born into a musical family in Saint Petersburg, 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 music under him until the latter's death in 1908. Soon after, Stravinsky met impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who commissioned him to write three ballets for the Ballets Russes's Paris seasons: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913), the last of which caused a near-riot at the premiere due to its avant-garde nature and later changed the way composers understood rhythmic structure.

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