lucidity.” –Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (June 17/5‚ 1882 – April 6‚ 1971) lived by this mantra. As a 20th Century composer‚ pianist‚ and conductor‚ music was his truth. Time magazine even named him as one of the 100 most influential people of the century. Music and its livelihood were the fiber of his life and he continued to serve his art through his own personal trials‚ triumphs‚ and tribulations until his own very end. Talent surrounded Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky from the beginning
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Born in 1882 in Oranienbaum‚ Russia‚ a city southwest of St. Petersburg‚ Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian/American composer who was described as one of the most important composers in the 20th century. Stravinsky was even named by Time Magazine’ as one of the most influential people of the century. Stravinsky made many special contributions to music in the 20th century which were wide and varied. His material was raw and produced a fresh and new sound for the 20th century world of music
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born on June 17th‚ 1882 in Oranienbaum‚ Russia. He was one of four to his polish parents‚ Anna née Kholodovsky and Fyodor Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky’s first exposer to music was from his father‚ who was a bass singer at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. His father helped him learn the love of music. His first musical education began at the age of nine with piano lessons‚ studying music theory‚ and attempting composition. By fifteen‚ he had mastered Mendelssohn’s
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In the passage‚ composer Igor Stravinsky describes orchestra conductors by using rhetorical devices and detailed language to convey his feelings on the subject. He is obviously unimpressed with the "skill" that conductors are praised for and cynical of their talent in general. The author uses bitter metaphors and pessimistic language to perceptibly make his opinion known. The author frequently compares conductors to politicians in the first paragraph. In the first sentence he makes his first strike
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Swan Lake and The Rite of Spring are ballet performances with Russian backgrounds. Swan Lake‚ a well known classical ballet‚ was choreographed by Marius Petipa in the late 1800s. The Rite of Spring‚ however‚ was performed in the early 1900s with a contemporary twist on classical ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinksy. Both pieces presented numbers of similarities such as the dancers‚ symmetry on stage‚ the act of pantomiming and music. The dances contained the principals and the corps de ballet
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Ibrahim Diallo 1st Period 9/18/13 Stravinsky Essay In Igor Stravinsky’s essay‚ he describe his hatred toward the way conductors attract their audience with little effort and talent. In the passage‚ Stravinsky a composer of music‚ describe what Conductors are and what they do. He compares them to politicians and actors‚ who only care to play themselves and rarely attract people with original minds sets. A Conductor need not understand the concepts of music‚ nor does he/she need to have any musical
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The Rite of Spring by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) had been composed in 1913 and is considered a masterpiece of the twentieth century. Despite being considered such a prolific piece‚ it serves as quite paradoxical when it comes to its rather contradictory and ambivalent background. The composition process had been approached in a different style to much of his other works‚ involving myth‚ folklore and traditionalism and all of which surround this rather haunting yet admirable
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Biography: Igor Stravinsky Learning Igor Stravinsky’s life was very inspiring in many ways. One of the most inspiring trait of Igor Stravinsky was his drive to become a composer. He had the mindset of becoming a composer although every aspect in his life went towards a different path. This composer had contributed new insights to classical music in his time. His work was highly praised by the people in the industry that it was influential to every aspiring music composers. He introduced many methods
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IGOR STRAVINSKY Igor Stravinsky is considered by many the greatest composer of the 20th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years‚ but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg‚ Russia in Oranienbaum‚ on June 17‚ 1882. He was born to a famous Russian bass opera singer‚ Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky was third of a family of four boys. He grew up hearing his father
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The Horrible "Great" Conductors Composer Igor Stravinsky has written a passage that discusses orchestra conductors. Stravinsky uses language and rhetorical devices to express his point of view. Through the tropes‚ the exigence‚ and the audience he shows how horrible "great" conductors really are. Stravinsky uses tropes to enhance his argument against conductors. The language he uses is very harsh. In a few places‚ he goes beyond his arguments into simple criticisms and attacks
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