Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

Author Name:

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

Born As:

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

Other Names:

Born:

17 Jun 1882

Died:

06 Apr 1971




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Composer, pianist and conductor                          
Three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes:

The Firebird (1910
Petrushka - 1911/1947
The Rite of Spring - 1913

Book:

Chronicles of My Life, written with Walter Nouve - 1936

Lecture:

Harvard University Charles Eliot Norton Lectures with Alexis Roland-Manuel and Pierre Souvtchinsky - 1939, collected under the title Poétique musicale in 1942, Translated in 1947 as Poetics of Music.                                              
Mother 
Father  Fyodor Stravinsky                                              
Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the century.