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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 Fyodorovich Stravinsky [a] [b] (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (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 .
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.
"The Owl and the Pussy Cat" is a song for soprano and piano composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1966, based on the eponymous text by Edward Lear. It is Stravinsky's final completed original composition. Stravinsky had known Lear's poem prior to setting it as it had been the first English language verses his wife Vera had memorized.
In 1937, Stravinsky was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which had already forced his wife and two daughters to a sanatorium in Switzerland. Stravinsky's daughter Ludmilla and wife Yekaterina died of their illnesses in November 1938 and March 1939, respectively, followed by Stravinsky's own quarantine and the death of his mother Anna in June 1939. [1]
Craft met Stravinsky in 1948, and from then until the composer's death in 1971, Craft worked with Stravinsky in a variety of roles, eventually evolving into a full artistic partnership. Craft compiled the libretti for Stravinsky's The Flood and A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer , and lived with Igor and Vera Stravinsky in Hollywood and later ...
Chanel invites Stravinsky to live in her villa outside Paris, along with his ailing wife and their children. The summer months that follow see Chanel and Stravinsky begin an affair, one which Stravinsky's wife cannot avoid becoming aware of. Tensions between Stravinsky and his wife, and between Stravinsky's wife and Chanel, are unavoidable.
[8] [9] [10] They later moved to Fresno, California, and by the age of 13, Zevon was an occasional visitor to the home of Igor Stravinsky, where he briefly studied modern classical music alongside Robert Craft. Zevon's parents divorced when he was 16 years old.