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1 day ago · Dancers in the Ballets Russes's Apollon musagète. Greek mythology was a common theme in Stravinsky's neoclassical works. His first Greek mythology-based work was the ballet Apollon musagète (1927), choosing the leader of the Muses and the god of art Apollo as the subjects.
Jun 13, 2024 · Apollon musagète, Stravinsky’s last ballet to be mounted by Diaghilev, premiered in 1928, a year before Diaghilev’s own death and the dissolution of his ballet company. In 1936 Stravinsky wrote his autobiography.
- Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer whose work revolutionized musical thought and sensibility in the 20th century. His fame rests on a few...
- Igor Stravinsky’s collaborations with Serge Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes, including The Firebird (1910), made him known overnight. Other composi...
- Igor Stravinsky’s father, Fyodor, was one of the leading Russian operatic basses of his day, and Igor’s mother, Anna, was a talented pianist. Igor...
- Igor Stravinsky studied law and philosophy at St. Petersburg University, from which he graduated in 1905. While studying, he showed some of his mus...
- Igor Stravinsky was always in mediocre health—he suffered from tuberculosis in the 1930s and a stroke in 1956—but he continued full-scale creative...
Jun 17, 2024 · Agon. During the 1950s Stravinsky gave his creative imagination one final jolt by embracing Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique known as Serialism in late masterpieces including the ballet Agon.
5 days ago · The page describes the Music Division's unique music manuscript holdings: Stravinsky's holograph manuscripts and sketches for his own works, manuscript materials in the Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft collection, and Stravinsky's personal Antiphonary.
Jun 13, 2024 · Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer whose work had a revolutionary impact on musical thought and sensibility just before and after World War I, and whose compositions remained a touchstone of modernism for much of his long working life.
Jun 13, 2024 · Igor Stravinsky - Composer, Ballet, Opera: Like that of so many masters, Stravinsky’s fame rests on only a few works and one or two of his more important achievements. In The Rite of Spring he presented a new concept of music involving constantly changing rhythms and metric imbalances, a brilliantly original orchestration, and ...
Jun 28, 2024 · In his polemics, composer Igor Stravinsky in exile insisted on the liberating autonomy of the creative act. But the tangled history of his Symphony in Three Movements, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as a "victory symphony" in 1945, suggests a composition process that was less than fluent.
