Igor stravinsky birthplace of george washington dixon

Be among the first to hear about upcoming ticket giveaways, and the latest USUO news. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a seminal figure of the early- and mid-twentieth century musical world far beyond his birthplace near St. Igor Stravinsky was born in the town of Oranienbaum, Russia, in , and was raised in the city of St. His father was an operatic bass at the Maryinsky now Kirov Theatre in St.

Petersburg, and his mother was an accomplished pianist. While Stravinsky studied piano and music from an early age, his parents wished for him to pursue another vocation. He entered law school in upon graduation from secondary school. While at St. Petersburg University, he was a less-than-enthusiastic law student, attending merely 50 class sessions over his 4 year tenure.

In , Stravinsky spent a summer in Heidelberg, Germany, at the home of the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, with whom he began private music theory and composition studies. Another important association for Stravinsky began in Two of his compositions were performed at a concert in St. Petersburg, a concert attended by ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who had just organized a ballet company in Paris, the Ballets Russes.

Diaghilev commissioned Stravinsky for a full-length ballet, The Firebird.

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The success of Firebird led to the ballet Petrouchka , and the ballet The Rite of Spring , which famously inspired a riot on its opening night. The next few years saw Stravinsky, his wife Yekaterina Katya , and their family, dividing their time between Russia in the summer and Switzerland in the winter, with regular trips to Paris for work with Diaghilev.

As the threat of war loomed over Europe, Stravinsky traveled in July of to retrieve personal items and Russian folkloric reference materials.