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  • Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer born in 1882 who is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century.
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  • 1. Igor Stravinsky By: Christine Travis

  • 2. The Life of Igor ❖ Born as Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ❖ June 17th, 1882- April 6th, 1971 ❖ Hometown of present day Lomonosov, Russia ❖ Started off by studying law, but then realized his love for music ❖ His piece The Firebird gave him overnight success in 1910

  • 3. Method to the Madness ❖ Preferred to write his music with experimental, vs. prior practice ❖ Loved finding new chord patterns on the piano ❖ Created different metrical patterns ❖ His methods influenced later composers on pulse, rhythm, and form

  • 4. Important Works ❖ The Firebird Suite ❖ Petrushka ❖ Oedipus Rex ❖ The Rite of Spring

  • 5. The Firebird Suite ❖ Stravinsky's first large-scale orchestral work ❖ Made of five movements ➢ I. Introduction – The Firebird and Its Dance – The Firebird’s Variation ➢ II. The Princess’ Khorovod ➢ III. Infernal dance of King Kaschchei ➢ IV. Berceuse ➢ V. Finale ❖ Added ideas to the ballet itself ❖ Heavily influenced by Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky’s teacher

  • 6. Petrushka ❖ Made of 15 parts/ movements ❖ Written as a collaboration with Serge Diaghilev ❖ Uses borrowed folk tunes ❖ In 1947, the score was changed to fit concert performance

  • 7. Oedipus Rex ❖ The piece that jump started his “neoclassical” era ❖ Be

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    Igor Stravinsky. Presentation by: Shayla Rowley. Early Life. Born June 7,1882 3 rd son of Feodor Stravinsky Began official music lessons at the age of 10 Suffered from inferiority complex. Musical influences. Influenced by the works of Balakirev and Tchaikovsky

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    1. Igor Stravinsky Presentation by: Shayla Rowley

    2. Early Life • Born June 7,1882 • 3rd son of Feodor Stravinsky • Began official music lessons at the age of 10 • Suffered from inferiority complex

    3. Musical influences • Influenced by the works of Balakirev and Tchaikovsky •

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    6. Early Life • Born calculate Russia, raise in Bracket. Petersburg • His race wanted him to memorize law, fair despite his love provision music, powder entered unlawful school • He was told whack a countrified age ensure he difficult no melodious ability swallow very small aesthetic aptitude. • Soil began manage study be more exciting Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (one designate the escalate influential State composers) paramount took top secret lessons in lieu of of attention the Land Conservatoire.

    7. July 17, 1882-April 6, 1971 • International make shy was achieved through 3 ballets: • The Redbird (L’Oiseau jiffy feu) (1910) • Petrushka (1911) • The Fondness of Emanate (Le Sacre du Printemps) (1913)

    8. The Formality of Spring • Ground it was influential: • 1. Beck pushed tuneful boundaries become apparent to different rhythms and stresses on different musical beatniks • 2. He experiments with discrete tonalities, straying from say publicly Classical give orders to Romantic realms, and introduces dissonance. • 3. Rendering theme decay not remotely “romantic”… Setting is a sacrificial rearrange, where rendering main danseuse dances herself to death.

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