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Igor Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring in 1913. It redefined 20th-century music, much as Beethoven's Eroica had transformed music a century before. With it, Stravinsky took himself far into the ...
Russ.‐born composer, conductor, pianist, and writer (Fr. cit. 1934, Amer. cit. 1945). Son of Fyodor Stravinsky. Went to St Petersburg Univ. 1901 to study law but increasingly spent time in mus. pursuits. Spent much time at Rimsky‐Korsakov's house, becoming his pupil in 1903. Began 1st sym., 1905, also pf. sonata.
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Composer; NICHOLAS ROERICH (1874-1947): Painter, ethnographer, Russia’s acknowledged specialist in pagan, pantheistic antiquity, an expert on ancient Slavs. Roerich provided décor for Diaghilev’s stages beginning in 1909. He provided the scenario, sets and costumes for The Rite. Stravinsky’s score is dedicated to Roerich.
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Category:Stravinsky, Igor. Works by this person are generally in the public domain in Canada. Works by this person are not in the public domain in countries with a life+70 copyright term (including all EU countries), unless an exception applies. In the United States, all works first published before 1929 are in the public domain; works first ...
Življenjepis. Igor Stravinski se je rodil 17. junija 1882 v Oranienbaumu (danes Lomonosov), predmestju ruske carske prestolnice Sankt Peterburg.Njegova starša sta bila Fjodor Ignjatijevič Stravinski, basist v Marijinskem gledališču v Sankt Peterburgu in Anna (rojena Kolodovski).
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (/ d i ˈ æ ɡ ɪ l ɛ f / dee-AG-il-ef; Russian: Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf]; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1872 – 19 August 1929), also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.
