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The "passport chord to the concerto", prominently featured in all movements. Early in the compositional process, Stravinsky devised a chord which stretches from D 4 to E 5 to A 6.One day while he and Dushkin were having lunch in a Paris restaurant, he sketched the chord on a napkin for the violinist, who thought the chord unplayable, to Stravinsky's disappointment.
Igor Fjodorovitj Stravinskij (født 17. juni 1882 i Oranienbaum, Rusland, død 6. april 1971 i New York City, USA) var en russiskfødt komponist, pianist og dirigent, som senere blev fransk og amerikansk statsborgerskab.Han regnes bredt for at være en af det 20. århundredes vigtigste og mest indflydelsesrige komponister og spillede en central rolle i udviklingen af modernistisk musik.
Igor Stravinsky was the son of Fyodor Stravinsky, the principal bass singer at the Imperial Opera, Saint Petersburg, and Anna, née Kholodovskaya, a competent amateur singer and pianist from an old-established Russian family.Fyodor's association with many of the leading figures in Russian music, including Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky, meant that Igor grew up in an intensely musical ...
The Symphony in C is an orchestral work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky.. The Symphony was written between 1938 and 1940 on a commission from American philanthropist Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. It was a turbulent period of the composer's life, marked by illness and deaths in his immediate family.
Stravinsky was helped greatly in the work's production by Swiss philanthropist Werner Reinhart, who sponsored and underwrote its premiere.In gratitude Stravinsky dedicated Histoire to him, [3] and gave him the manuscript. [4] [5]Histoire du soldat was first performed on 28 September 1918 in Lausanne, conducted by Ernest Ansermet.British conductor Edward Clark, a friend and champion of ...
The Firebird (French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица, romanized: Zhar-ptitsa) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, who collaborated with Alexandre Benois and others on a scenario based on the Russian fairy ...
Pulcinella is a 21-section ballet by Igor Stravinsky with arias for soprano, tenor and bass vocal soloists, and two sung trios. It is based on the 18th-century play Quatre Polichinelles semblables, or Four similar Pulcinellas, revolving around a stock character from commedia dell'arte.The work premiered at the Paris Opera on 15 May 1920 under the baton of Ernest Ansermet.
