Igor Stravinsky

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Le baiser de la fee (The Fairy's Kiss): Scene II Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Pulcinella - Le Baiser De La Fee (The Fairy's Kiss)
The Firebird Suite *: Finale Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Firebird / The Rite of Spring
Symphony in C: Moderato alla breve Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Symphonies
Violin Concerto in D Major: II. Aria I Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky/Brahms: Violin Concertos
Violin Concerto in D Major: I. Toccata Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky/Brahms: Violin Concertos
The Firebird Suite *: Firebird: Lullaby Igor Stravinsky Berceuse - Music Of Peace And Calm
Suite italienne (Version for Cello & Piano): II. Serenata Igor Stravinsky Shuffle. Play. Listen
The Firebird (original version): Scene I: Infernal Dance of Kastchei and his subjects under the Firebird's magic spell Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Firebird (Original Version) & Petrushka (1947 Version)
The Firebird Suite *: Introduction Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Firebird / The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring, Pt. 2 The Sacrifice: Part II: The Sacrifice: Sacrificial Dance Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring - Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116
Octet for Wind Instruments : I. Sinfonia Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Octet & L'Histoire du Soldat
Pater Noster Igor Stravinsky Pater Noster - Settings of the Lord's Prayer
Les Noces (The Wedding) (version for piano) Igor Stravinsky The Virtuoso Pianolist
The Soldier's Tale: Part 1, Introduction: The Soldier's March Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (Histoire du Soldat) (Complete) [Digital Version]
Histoire du soldat, Première partie: Voilà un joli endroit... Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat
Histoire du soldat, Première partie: Donnez-moi votre violon... Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat
Les Noces - Première Partie: Premier Tableau: La Tresse Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Ballets
Les Noces - Première Partie: Deuxième Tableau: Chez le Marié Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Ballets
Les Noces - Première Partie: Troisième Tableau: Le Départ de la Mariée Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Ballets
Les Noces - Deuxième Partie: Quatrième Tableau: Le Repas de Noces Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Ballets
The Soldier's Tale: Part 1, Music for Scene One: Airs by a Stream Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (Histoire du Soldat) (Complete) [Digital Version]
Histoire du soldat, Deuxième partie: On a fait marcher la musique... Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat
Histoire du soldat, Deuxième partie: Si on y allait? Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat
Histoire du soldat, Première partie: Il se mit à lire dans le livre... Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat
Histoire du soldat, Deuxième partie: Un autre pays à présent... Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat
L' histoire du soldat, concert suite for 7 instruments in 7 parts: No 1, Marche du soldat Igor Stravinsky Musiques à Orsay
Histoire du soldat - Part 1: 1. Marche du soldat - 2. Le soldat: Voilà un joli en- droit Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Oedipus Rex - Opera-Oratorio in two acts after Sophocles: Prologue: Spectateurs! Vous allez entendre une version latine d' Oedipe-Roi Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Histoire du soldat - Part 1: 3. Musique de la 1ère scène - 4. Le diable: donnez moi votre violon Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Histoire du soldat - Part 1: 5. Marche du soldat - 6. Le soldat: Bravo Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Le chant du rossignol: Le Chant du rossignol Igor Stravinsky Les Ballets Russes, Vol. 4

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский) (17th June 1882 – 6th April 1971) was a Russian composer who first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet): L'Oiseau de feu ("The Firebird") (1910), Petrushka (1911), and Le sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") (1913). Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. After his first, Russian (expressionistic), phase he turned in the 1920s to neoclassicism. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso, fugue, symphony), frequently concealed a vein of intense emotion beneath a surface appearance of detachment or austerity, and often paid tribute to the music of earlier masters, for example J.S. Bach, Verdi and Tchaikovsky. In the 1950s he adopted serial procedures, using the new techniques over the final twenty years of his life to write works that were briefer and of greater rhythmic, harmonic, and textural complexity than his earlier music. Their intricacy notwithstanding, these pieces share traits with all of Stravinsky's earlier output; rhythmic energy, the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few cells comprising only two or three notes, and clarity of form, instrumentation, and of utterance. Stravinsky only started using the twelve-tone system after the death of Schoenberg in 1951. At that time dodecaphony was a well-known and widely spread system that was generally accepted as a valuable 'replacement' of the tonal system. Therefore, some musicologists thought it wiser to consider the serial works of Stravinsky as a sort of neo-dodecaphony, meaning that they are also conceived as "neoclassical". Stravinsky achieved fame as a pianist and conductor, often at the premieres of his works. He was a writer and compiled, with the help of Alexis Roland-Manuel, a theoretical work entitled Poetics of Music, in which he famously claimed that music was incapable of "expressing anything but itself". Several interviews in which the composer spoke to Robert Craft were published as Conversations with Stravinsky. They collaborated on five further volumes over the following decade. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.