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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky Biography

in full Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

(1882 - 1971)

Related Works

Operas
1914 The Nightingale
1922 Mavra

1927 Oedipus rex
1951 The Rake's Progress
Melodrama
1933 Persephone
1961–62 The Flood
Ballets
1910 The Firebird
1911 Petrushka
1913 The Rite of Spring
1920 Pulcinella
1923 The Wedding
1928 Apollon musagète
1928 The Fairy's Kiss
1937 Jeu de cartes (The Card Party)
1947 Orpheus
1957 Agon
Music-theater
1918 The Soldier's Tale
Orchestral music
1908 Fireworks
1920 Symphonies of Wind Instruments
1938 Concerto ‘Dumbarton Oaks’
1940 Symphony in C
1942 Danses Concertantes
1945 Symphony in Three Movements
1946 Concerto for string orchestra
1931 Violin Concerto
1945 Ebony concerto for clarinet
1946 Concerto for strings
1958–59 ‘Movements’ for piano and orchestra
1963–64 ‘Variations’ for orchestra
Choral music
1930 Symphony of Psalms
1948 Mass
1952 Cantata
1956 ‘Canticum sacrum’
1958 Threni
1961 A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer
1966 Requiem Canticles
Vocal music (with ensemble)
1914 Pribaoutki
1963 Abraham and Isaac
Chamber music
Duo concertante for violin and piano
1923 Octet for wind
1922–23 Octet for wind instruments
1954 Septet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and piano
‘In memorian Dylan Thomas’ (tenor, string quartet and 4 trombones)
1964 ‘Abraham and Isaac’ for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and 3 clarinets
Piano music
1924 Sonata
2 Pianos
1935 Concerto
1944 Sonata
Songs
1916 ‘berceuses du chat’ (four songs for female voice and 3 clarinets)

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(born June 17, 1882, Oranienbaum, Russia—died April 6, 1971, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Russian-born U.S. composer. Son of an operatic bass, he decided to be a composer at age 20 and studied privately with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1902–08). His Fireworks (1908) was heard by the impresario Sergey Diaghilev, who commissioned Stravinsky to write the Firebird ballet (1910); its dazzling success made him Russia's leading young composer. The great ballet score Petrushka (1911) followed. His next ballet, The Rite of Spring (1913), with its shifting and audacious rhythms and its unresolved dissonances, was a landmark in music history; its Paris premiere caused an actual riot in the theatre, and Stravinsky's international notoriety was assured. In the early 1920s he adopted a radically different style of restrained Neoclassicism—employing often ironic references to older music—in works such as his Octet (1923). His major Neoclassical works include Oedipus rex (1927) and the Symphony of Psalms (1930) and culminate in the opera The Rake's Progress (1951). From 1954 he employed serialism, a compositional technique. His later works include Agon (1957)—the last of his many ballets choreographed by George Balanchine—and Requiem Canticles (1966).