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Onsdag 15. februar 2012

Igor Stravinsky

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Artikler om Igor Stravinsky fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 23. januar 2012
  • MUSIC REVIEW; Stravinsky's Travels, Recounted in Melody

    There has been much debate about the Russian-ness of Stravinsky, who lived and worked away from his native country for most of his life. In a program called ''Stravinsky Outside Russia,'' on Friday evening at Carnegie Hall, the conductor Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra offered selections that reflected both Stravinsky's Russian...

  • MUSIC REVIEW; New Faces Appear Amid All The Mozart

    The Mostly Mozart Festival has taken justifiable pride in its programming innovations in recent years, with this summer's focus on Stravinsky as a case in point. But the festival still maintains some of its more time-honored strengths. From its early days, for example, Mostly Mozart has introduced conductors and soloists who have not been heard...

  • MUSIC REVIEW; A Group Determinedly Finding a Spot Right in the Middle of Things

    In 2007 Claire Chase, an accomplished flutist and an ambitious, industrious organizer, spelled out her hopes for the International Contemporary Ensemble, which she founded in 2001 with a group of fellow graduates of the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. ''We want to become the first large-scale, flexible contemporary ensemble in the United States that...

Wikipedia

Igor Fjodorovitj Stravinskij (engelsk: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinskij, russisk Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский) (17. juni 1882 – 6. april 1971) var en russisk-fransk-amerikansk komponist.

Stravinskij var den berømteste elev af Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov og var gennem en stor del af det 20. århundrede den mest fremtrædende klassiske komponist. Det som kendetegner hans musik mest, er den store inspiration fra folkemusik. Dette ses bl.a. på det meget udbredte brug af pentatone skalaer.

Hans mest berømte værker inkluderer bl.a. Petrushka, Le Sacre du Printemps (Forårsofferet) og L'Istorie du Soldat (Historien om en Soldat). Operaer af Stravinsky: The Nightingale (1914),
Mavra (1922),
Renard (1922),
Oedipus rex (1927),
Perséphone (1934),
Lastens vej (The Rake's Progress, 1951) og
The Flood (1962). Fold ud

Han har også komponeret 3 symfonier.

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