Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky – VIII. Minuetto
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Russian Federation (1882 – 1971)
Stravinsky’s compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. After his first, Russian (expressionistic), phase he turned in the 1920s to neoclassicism. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso, fugue, symphony), frequently concealed a vein of intense emotion beneath a surface appearance of detachment or austerity, and often paid tribute to the music of earlier masters, for example J.S. Bach, Verdi and Tchaikovsky.
In the 1950s he adopted serial procedures, using the new techniques over the final twenty years of his life to write works that were briefer and of greater rhythmic, harmonic, and textural complexity than his earlier music. Their intricacy notwithstanding, these pieces share traits with all of Stravinsky’s earlier output; rhythmic energy, the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few cells comprising only two or three notes, and clarity of form, instrumentation, and of utterance.
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Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring): Part II. "The Sacrifice"
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The Rite of Spring <3
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vote for correction: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский
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happy 100th le sacre
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Mampato
I forgot Les Noces!
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Mampato
Incidentally, there is so much more to Stravinsky than the three Russian Ballets. Just think of Pulcinella, Symphony of Psalms, Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Agon and Soldier's Tale. He was so prolific, and wrote in such a variety of genres, that it is silly to ignore the immensely rich output dating beyond 1913.
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Gente fina.
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a god and no less!
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the great man himself. what a legend!
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Dances of the Young Girls \m/
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Just finished reading his book "Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons". Amazing book and I'd highly recommended it to all fans of classical and contemporary classical music.
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