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Encyclopedia: Igor Stravinsky
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After The Rake's Progress, Stravinsky felt he had reached a creative impasse with the neoclassic style. He turned to serialism and became strongly influenced by the manner of Anton Webern, although he never lost his personal musical imprint. Symphony in C Major/CBS MK42434 Igor Stravinsky/CBC Symphony Orchestra...
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Igor Stravinsky His Rite of Spring heralded the century. After that, he never stopped reinventing himself — or modern music. By PHILIP GLASS...
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Classical Music Pages article from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music plus detailed information on Petrushka and a picture gallery, list of works,
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Stravinsky is one of the most original creative musicians of the 20th century. A short biography of Stravinsky, with a peek at his attitude to composing religious works. Stravinsky's last work. Composed when he was 85, it is representative of his venture into serial music and widely considered to be the most masterly...
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Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky was born at Oranienbaum on the Gulf of Finland opposite Kronstadt on 5 June 1882 (O.S.) or 17 June (N.S.). He yielded to his father's wish for him to study law, but later blossomed as a composer under the guidance of Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the famous Russian Five.
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While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this book-the composer's first-we hear from the man himself.
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