Thus it was that when Diaghilev and Nijinsky visited Stravinsky in Lausanne at the end of September 1910 expecting to hear work in progress on the Rite, they heard instead Stravinsky …

In broad strokes, the work portrays, in both music and in dance, a series of scenarios based on spring fertility rituals in ancient pagan Russia, culminating at the end with the sacrifice of a …

Russian Period: Stravinsky’s ballets for the Ballet Russe are known as his Russian Period works. The works emphasize Russian folk culture, mythology and historical stories

Taking inspiration from Anton Webern (1883-1945), Stravinsky now wrote brief works in which melodic lines were 'atomized' into short fragments inconstantly changing tone colors and …

Russian-born Igor Stravinsky was a composer, pianist and conductor who took refuge from World War I in Switzerland from 1914 to 1920.

Jul 25, 2024 · Soldat (1918) Igor Stravinsky Toward the end of World War I, Stravinsky was facing the harsh realities of economic deprivation: payments from his German publishers were being …

Stravinsky has a reputation for rhythmic interest, and uses syncopation, polyrhythm, unusual time signatures and groupings of pulse to weaken the feeling of the predictable evenly-spaced …