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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia—a town now called Lomonosov, about thirty miles (fifty kilometers) west of Saint Petersburg—on 17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His mother, Anna Kirillovna Stravinskaya [ c ] (née Kholodovskaya), was an amateur singer and pianist from an established family of landowners.
Igor Stravinsky around 1925. Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known for being one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century classical music. His unique approach to rhythm, instrumentation, and tonality made him a pivotal figure in modernist music. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Strawinsky was born in Saint Petersburg in 1907. His father was the composer Igor Stravinsky, who at the time of his son's birth was still under the private tutelage of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and his mother Yekaterina (née Nosenko), who came from a Ukrainian landowning family.
This is a list of composers of 20th-century classical music, sortable by name, year of birth, year of death, nationality, notable works, and remarks.It includes only composers of significant fame and importance.
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.
Igor Stravinsky, c. 1920s. Igor Stravinsky began studying composition with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1902. [1] [2] He completed several works during his time as a student, [3] including his first performed work, Pastorale (1907), [4] and his first published work, the Symphony in E-flat (1907), which the composer categorized Opus 1.
The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky.The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition.
Walsh was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire in 1942. [1] He was educated at Kingston Grammar School, St. Paul's School, London, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read English. He worked as a music critic for The Times, Financial Times, and the Daily Telegraph, and as a frequent broadcaster for the BBC on classical music topics.