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Stravinsky
[ struh-vin-skee; Russian struh-vyeen-skyee ]
noun
- I·gor Fë·do·ro·vich [ee, -gawr fyaw-d, uh, -, roh, -vich, ee, -g, uh, r, , fyaw, -d, uh, -, r, uh, -vyich], 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
Stravinsky
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noun
- StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich18821971MUSRussianMUSIC: composer Igor Fyodorovich (ˈiɡərj ˈfjɔdərəvitʃ). 1882–1971, US composer, born in Russia. He created ballet scores, such as The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913), for Diaghilev. These were followed by neoclassical works, including Oedipus Rex (1927) and the Symphony of Psalms (1930). The 1950s saw him reconciled to serial techniques, which he employed in such works as the Canticum Sacrum (1955), the ballet Agon (1957), and Requiem Canticles (1966)
Example Sentences
Waltzes by Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Shostakovich were tinged with memory, cutting sarcasm and outrageous spoof.
POP has given important premieres, such as the first professional Los Angeles staging of Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress,†which was written in L.A.
Puccini died in 1924 before finishing “Turandot,†which represented a new direction for the composer, away from melodrama and, instead, embraced a new air in music, be it from Mahler, Debussy, Schoenberg or Stravinsky.
They waved their batons in front of an imaginary orchestra, practicing Stravinsky’s notoriously complex “The Rite of Spring.â€
His Sibelius is reverential, his Stravinsky without bite.
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