IGOR STRAVINSKY
- b. Oranienbaum (Russia), 6-17-1882
- d. New York (USA), 4-6-1971
Song of a well-known singer, Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov with whom he studies for three years. The theatrical manager Sergey Diaghilev becomes impressed in a concert of some of his first works, and signed him as composer and arranger for his Russian Ballet in Paris; his first work for Diaghilev, The Firebird, comes in 1910. Brought to fame in 1913 after the turbulent premiere of The Rite of Spring, the outburst of the World War I stopped for some years the ascending career of the russian composer. Stablished in the United States since 1939, Stravinsky was transforming his style from the neoclassicism which has accompany him on the between-wars period till certain proximity to the twelve-note system. The influence and importance of his music is one of the basic facts of the History of this century.
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