Then he moved to Gourevitch Gymnasium, a private school, where he studied history, mathematics, and languages (Latin, Greek, and Slavonic and French, German, and his native Russian). Stravinsky's first school was The Second Saint Petersburg Gymnasium, where he stayed until his mid-teens. Until 1914, he spent most of his summers in the town of Ustilug, now in Ukraine, where his father-in-law owned an estate. On 10 August 1882, Stravinsky was baptised at Nikolsky Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. Stravinsky's house in Ustilug, now a museum The original family surname was Sulima-Strawiński the name "Stravinsky" originated from the word "Strava", one of the variants of the Streva River in Lithuania. It is traceable to the 17th and 18th centuries to the bearers of the Sulima and Strawiński coat of arms. The Stravinsky family was of Polish and Russian heritage, descended "from a long line of Polish grandees, senators and landowners". Igor was the third of their four sons his brothers were Roman, Yury, and Gury. His father, Fyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky (1843–1902), was an established bass opera singer in the Kiev Opera and the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg and his mother, Anna Kirillovna Stravinskaya ( née Kholodovskaya 1854–1939), a native of Kiev, was one of four daughters of a high-ranking official in the Kiev Ministry of Estates. Stravinsky was born on 17 June 1882 in the town of Oranienbaum on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, 25 mi (40 km) west of Saint Petersburg. 1.3 Ballets for Diaghilev and international fame, 1909–1920.1.2 Education and first compositions, 1901–1909.His compositions of this period shared traits with examples of his earlier output: rhythmic energy, the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few two- or three-note cells, and clarity of form and instrumentation. In the 1950s, Stravinsky adopted serial procedures. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms ( concerto grosso, fugue, and symphony) and drew from earlier styles, especially those of the 18th century. His "Russian phase", which continued with works such as Renard, L'Histoire du soldat, and Les noces, was followed in the 1920s by a period in which he turned to neoclassicism. The last transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913). Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ComSE (17 June 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship.
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