Stravinsky, Igor (Fyodorovich)(1882–1971) composer, conductor; born in Oranienbaum, near St. Petersburg, Russia. Son of an admired bass in the Imperial Opera, he studied piano and composition as a boy. Although he studied law at St. Petersburg University, he was far more interested in ...
Igor Stravinsky, 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. His most notab
Luciano Berio was born in Oneglia, Italy in 1925. He is a composer and teacher of music who studied at the Music Academy in Milan, and founded an electronic studio. He moved to the USA in 1962, taught composition at the Juilliard School, New York City, and returned to Italy in 1972....
Igor Stravinsky June 17, April 6, 1971 Raised in St. Petersburg Father was an operatic bass Studied piano and composition as a child Parents expect. Romantic Period AD Music History. Romantic AD Romantic does not necessarily refer to love. It refers to all emotions ( love, More important to...
Igor Stravinsky 1945 Gelatin silver contact sheet Santu Mofokeng(South African, b. 1956) Opening Song, Hand Clapping and Bells 1986 From the seriesTrain Church Gelatin silver print Image:19 x 28.5cm Minor White(American, 1908-1976) The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Pultneyville, New York ...
Stravinsky experimented with twelve-tone composition. If you would like to read an archived article from the Atlantic, written by Stravinsky’s longtime personal assitant Robert Craft, on this professional animosity and the circumstances of Stavinsky’s late excursion into Schoenberg’s techniques, clic...
withStravinskyand the Russian constructivist aesthetic * Love of mechanistic musical processes foreshadows minimalism * Rhythmic energy and sense of orchestral colour make works highly suitable for choreography * In the 1940s, with old world swept away by war, he turned away from composition to ...