IGOR

STRAVINSKY
MOST ORIGINAL AND INFLUENTIAL COMPOSER OF THE 20TH CENTURY
IGOR FYODOROVICH STRAVINSKY

Biography Musical Style

Compositions
IGOR STRAVINSKY

• Igor Stravinsky was born on June

17, 1882, in Oranienbaum,
Russia.
• He was raised in St. Petersburg
by his father, a bass singer named
Fyodor, and his mother, Anna, a
talented pianist.
• Stravinsky went to law school
before embarking on private
composition lessons with Rimsky-
Korsakov.
• In 1906, Stravinsky married
Yekaterina Gavrilovna Nosenko,
with whom he would have four children.

• He left the country for the United States

in 1939, because of the Russian
Revolution and spark of world war I.

• has an approximately 127 works

• Stravinsky died in New York, April 6,

1971.
OUTSTANDING WORKS
• The Firebird suite (1910).
• His skilful handling of material and rhythmic
inventiveness went beyond anything composed
by his Russian predecessors.
• It was first premiered at the Paris Opera on
June 25, 1910.
 PETRUSHKA
• Is a music ballet for orchestra.
• Petrushka was also known as the Russian
Pinocchio.
• Petrushka is actually a doll who fall inlove to
a beautiful Ballerina who’s inlove with
someone else.
THE RITE OF SPRING
• The Rite of Spring was originally to be called “ The
Great Sacrifice”
• One of the most famous scandal on the history of
performing arts.
• It is inspired by Russian culture, but, unlike them, it
challenged the audience with its chaotic percussive
momentum.
• The song is actually about a girl that is chosen as a
sacrifice and has to dance herself to death
THE RAKES PROGRESS
• The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera in three acts and an epilogue by
Igor Stravinsky, and is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's
Progress of William Hogarth.
• Stravinsky’s score deftly blends elements of 18th-and 20th-century music in this story
of love, madness, and bargains with the devil.
 MUSICAL STYLE

Serialism

Primitivism Neo-
classicism Avant-garde
 PRIMITIVISM
• Primivistic music is tonal through the asserting of
one note as more important than the others.
• Simple or common music mixed together to create
or form new sounds.
• Works:
The Firebird
Petrushka
Faun and Shepherdess
 NEO-CLASSICISM
• Economy, and emotional restraint exemplify
not only Stravinsky’s return to the music of
the Classical period, but also his exploration
of themes from the ancient Classical world,
such as Greek mythology.

• Works:
• The Rakes Progress
 AVANT- GARDE/
MODERNISM
• Avant-garde means new, unusual, or experimental.
• Avant-garde music are music that is said to be very
new and somehow innovative and ahead of time.

• Works:
• The Rite of Spring
 SERIALISM
• Stravinsky began using serial compositional
techniques such as dodecaphony, the twelve-tone
technique originally devised by Arnold Schoenberg.

• Works:
• Threni
• A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer
• Three Songs from Shakespeare
• The Flood (1962),
“ I HAVEN’T UNDERSTOOD A BAR OF MUSIC IN MY
LIFE, BUT I HAVE FELT IT.”- IGOR STRAVINSKY