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People In Music History
Stravinsky, Igor [Fedorovich] (1882-1971) Russian-born composer; also pianist,
conductor, and author of autobiographical and other writings. Pupil of Rimsky-
Korsakov; left Russia 1914; lived mainly in Paris, naturalized French 1934;
settled in the United States 1939, naturalized there 1945. Prodigiously
successful and influential composer, initially winning fame with pre-1914
ballets The Firebird, Petrushka, and (using enormous orchestra and "savage"
dynamic elements) The Rite of Spring. Later developed Neoclassical tendency
(compact forms, small forces, aversion from "emotion"; See Symphony), although
the austerity of this was modified from the 1930s. Showed interest in jazz
(e.g., in The Soldier's Tale); based ballet Pulcinella on music supposedly by
Pergolesi; adopted a deliberate back-to-Mozart style in opera The Rake's
Progress (1951). Other works include Symphony of Psalms (with chorus),
Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, Ebony Concerto (for dance band); opera-oratorios
Oedipus Rex and Persephone; ballets Apollo Musagetes, Orpheus, Agon; mass.
Notable rhythmic and harmonic innovator, but long adhered to tonality; however,
from the choral and orchestral Canticum sacrum (Holy Canticle, in Latin, for
St. Mark's, Venice), 1955, he adopted a twelve-tone technique indebted to
Webern's. Later works included ballet Agon; Movements for piano and orchestra;
Threni; The Flood; Sacred Ballad (in Hebrew, on the biblical story of Abraham
and Isaac) for baritone and small orchestra; Elegy for J.F. Kennedy. See also
Ragtime. His son, [Svyatoslav] Soulima Stravinsky (b. 1910), is a pianist,
composer, and teacher.