Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky was a pioneering 20th-century Russian-born composer whose innovative works, such as "The Rite of Spring," revolutionized modern classical music and made him a central figure of musical modernism.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf 20th-century classical composer
composer
conductor
human
pianist
awardReceived Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Wibaut Prize
burialPlace San Michele Cemetery, Venice, Italy
causeOfDeath heart failure
citizenship France
Russian Empire
United States of America
collaboratedWith George Balanchine
Sergei Diaghilev
Vaslav Nijinsky
countryOfBirth Russian Empire
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1882-06-17
dateOfDeath 1971-04-06
educatedAt Saint Petersburg University
employer Ballets Russes
ethnicGroup Russian
familyName Stravinsky
father Fyodor Stravinsky
fullName Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
genre ballet
chamber music
choral music
opera
orchestral music
givenName Igor
influenced Aaron Copland
Elliott Carter
Leonard Bernstein
Olivier Messiaen
Pierre Boulez
influencedBy Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
instrument piano
languageOfWorkOrName English
French
Russian
mannerOfDeath natural causes
movement musical modernism
neoclassicism in music
serialism
nativeName Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский
notableEvent premiere of The Rite of Spring in Paris in 1913
notableWork Agon
Ebony Concerto
L'Histoire du soldat
Mass
Oedipus Rex
Petrushka
Pulcinella
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Symphony of Psalms
The Firebird
The Rake's Progress
The Rite of Spring
placeOfBirth Lomonosov, Russia
Oranienbaum, Russian Empire
placeOfDeath New York City, United States NERFINISHED
religion Russian Orthodox Church
residence Los Angeles
New York City
Paris
Saint Petersburg
sexOrGender male
spouse Vera de Bosset
Yekaterina Nosenko
studiedUnder Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov


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