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How did George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky collaborate on ballet productions?
How did Igor Stravinsky use changing rhythms and metric imbalance in The Rite of Spring?
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How did Serge Diaghilev influence Igor Stravinsky’s transformation of Petrushka from a piano concerto idea into a ballet?
How did The Firebird make Igor Stravinsky internationally famous?
How is The Rite of Spring divided into two main parts?
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What role did Nicholas Roerich play in the original production of The Rite of Spring?
When and where did Igor Stravinsky die?
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When and where did The Rite of Spring first premiere?
When and where was Igor Stravinsky born?
When did Igor Stravinsky become a United States citizen?
When did Petrushka premiere with the Ballets Russes?
Where did Igor Stravinsky and Vera de Bosset settle after moving to the United States?
Which Russian folk traditions influenced Igor Stravinsky’s ballet cantata The Wedding?
Which choreographer created the original choreography for The Firebird and Petrushka?
Which features of past European music did Igor Stravinsky adapt in his Neoclassical works?
Which late Igor Stravinsky works use serial techniques?
Which major awards and honours did Igor Stravinsky receive during his lifetime?
Which musical features of The Rite of Spring shocked many audience members in 1913?
Which writers created the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress?
Why did Igor Stravinsky begin experimenting with serial and 12-tone composition after World War II?
Why did Igor Stravinsky believe choreography should have its own form instead of simply copying the music?
Why did Igor Stravinsky compose many works during the 1920s and 1930s for himself to perform?
Why did Igor Stravinsky study composition privately with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov rather than attend a conservatory?
Why did Igor Stravinsky use repetition and subtle variation instead of traditional thematic development?
Why did the first performance of The Rite of Spring cause an uproar in Paris?
Why is The Rite of Spring considered an important early work of musical modernism?
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Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer

Also known as: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

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Richard Taruskin

Professor of Musicology, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance; Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions; Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue...

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Igor Stravinsky (born June 5 [June 17, New Style], 1882, Oranienbaum [now Lomonosov], near St. Petersburg, Russia—died April 6, 1971, New York, New York, U.S.) 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. He was honoured with the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal in 1954 and...

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