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Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor and is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century music.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
He is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential
composers of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan
Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most
influential people of the century. He became a naturalised French
citizen in 1934 and a naturalized US citizen in 1945. In addition to the
recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a
pianist and a conductor, often at the premieres of his works.
Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic
diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets
commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and performed by
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Russian Ballets): The Firebird (1910),
Petrushka (1911/1947), and The Rite of Spring (1913). The Rite, whose
premiere provoked a riot, transformed the way in which subsequent
composers thought about rhythmic structure, and was largely responsible
for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary, pushing
the boundaries of musical design.
After this first Russian phase Stravinsky turned to neoclassicism in the
1920s. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional
musical forms (concerto grosso, fugue, symphony), frequently concealed a
vein of intense emotion beneath a surface appearance of detachment or
austerity, and often paid tribute to the music of earlier masters, for
example J.S. Bach and Tchaikovsky.
In the 1950s he adopted serial procedures, using the new techniques over
his last twenty years. Stravinsky's compositions of this period share
traits with examples of his earlier output: rhythmic energy, the
construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few two- or three-note
cells, and clarity of form, of instrumentation, and of utterance.
He also published a number of books throughout his career, almost always
with the aid of a collaborator, sometimes uncredited. In his 1936
autobiography, Chronicles of My Life, written with the help of Walter
Nouvel, Stravinsky included his infamous statement that "music is, by
its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all." With
Alexis Roland-Manuel and Pierre Souvtchinsky he wrote his 1939–40
Harvard University Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, which were delivered
in French and later collected under the title Poétique musicale in 1942
(translated in 1947 as Poetics of Music). Several interviews in which
the composer spoke to Robert Craft were published as Conversations with
Igor Stravinsky. They collaborated on five further volumes over the
following decade.
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