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Igor STRAVINSKY

17 June 1882 - 6 April 1971 (Age 88)

Stravinsky portrait

The above image is a portrait of Igor Stravinsky from my series '52 Composers'. I made it using a combination of traditional and digital techniques.

I have made this portrait available in various formats and also on some gift items which will make unusual presents for music lovers.You will also find here recommended books, CDs, and other related goodies.Fine art prints of this image are available at imagekind

Family

Father: Fedor Stravinsky, a leading Russian opera singer
Mother: Anna (Kholodovsky) Stravinsky
Siblings: one of four children
1st Wife: cousin Katerina Nossenko in 1906. died 1939 TB
2nd wife: Vera de Bossett, 1940.
Children: Theodore, Ludmila, Svyatoslav, Sulema, Milena, Nicholas, and Katherine

Works

Ballets:
* The Firebird
* Petrushka
* The Rite of Spring
* Pulcinella
* Apollon musagéte
* Le baiser de la fée
* Jeu de Cartes
* Orpheus
* Agon
* The Soldier's Tale, for chamber ensemble, dancers, speaker
Orchestral
* Symphony in E-flat Major, Opus 1,
* Symphony of Psalms
* Symphonies of Wind Instruments
* Symphony in C
* Symphony in Three Movements
* Octet for Wind Instruments
* Oratorio - Oedipus Rex
* Violin concerto
* Concerto, 'Dumbarton Oaks'
* Ebony Concerto
* Mavra (an opera)
* Opera, The Rake's Progress
* Les Noces (The Wedding), for voices, percussion and 4 pianos
* Threni, for soloists, chorus and orchestra
* Requiem Canticles, for voices and orchestra
* Melodrama, Perséphone
Writings
* Stravinsky, Igor, Stravinsky: An Autobiography, Simon & Schuster
* Stravinsky, Igor, Poetics of Muse, Harvard University Press