List of compositions by Igor Stravinsky

Stravinsky resting his arms atop a piano, a score under his arms
Igor Stravinsky around 1925

Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known for being one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century classical music. His unique approach to rhythm, instrumentation, and tonality made him a pivotal figure in modernist music.[1][2][3][4]

Stravinsky studied composition under composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from 1902 to 1908, Stravinsky's Feu d'artifice being his last piece composed under Rimsky-Korsakov.[5][6] During this time, Stravinsky completed his first full composition, the Symphony in E-flat major, catalogued Op. 1.[7] Attending the premiere of Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique and Feu d'artifice in 1909 was the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, owner of the Ballets Russes ballet company. Diaghilev was impressed enough that he commissioned Stravinsky to write some arrangements for the 1909 ballet season.[8] In the following years, Diaghilev commissioned Stravinsky to write three ballets: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913).[9] These ballets remain Stravinsky's most famous works today.[10][11][12][13]

Stravinsky's music is typically divided into three style periods: the Russian period (c. 1907–1919), the neoclassical period (c. 1920–1954), and the serial period (1954–1968). Stravinsky's Russian period is characterized by the use of Russian folk tunes and the influence of Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, and Taneyev.[14][15] His neoclassical period reflected back to the techniques and themes of the Classical period, like his use of the sonata form in the first movement of his Octet (1923) and the Greek mythological themes in Apollo (1928), Perséphone (1933), and Orpheus (1947).[16][17] His serial period began with using Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique dodecaphony in Agon (1954–57), later experimenting with non-twelve-tone techniques in his Cantata (1952) and Septet (1953).[18]

  1. ^ Staff, Rovi. "Igor Stravinsky Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 3 June 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  2. ^ Glass, Philip (8 June 1998). "The Classical Musician IGOR STRAVINSKY". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  3. ^ Browne, Andrew J. (October 1930). "Aspects of Stravinsky's Work". Music & Letters. 11 (4): 360–366. doi:10.1093/ml/XI.4.360. ISSN 0027-4224. JSTOR 726868.
  4. ^ Copland, Aaron (1980). Music and Imagination. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-674-58915-5.
  5. ^ White 1979, p. 25-30.
  6. ^ Stravinsky 1962, pp. 23–24.
  7. ^ White 1979, p. 12.
  8. ^ White 1979, p. 15-16.
  9. ^ White 1979, p. 15-20.
  10. ^ Pullinger, Mark (17 June 2021). "Bachtrack top ten: Igor Stravinsky". Bachtrack. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  11. ^ Clements, Andrew (22 July 2020). "Stravinsky: where to start with his music". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Best Stravinsky Works: 10 Essential Pieces By The Great Composer". uDiscover Music. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  13. ^ Schwartz, Steve. "Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Stravinsky". Classical Net. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  14. ^ Taruskin 1996, p. 163-368, chapters 3-5.
  15. ^ Taruskin 1996, p. 696-697.
  16. ^ Szabo, Kyle (Spring 2011). The evolution of style in the neoclassical works of Stravinsky (Dissertation thesis). James Madison University.
  17. ^ Levidou, Katerina (3 December 2020), Griffiths, Graham (ed.), "Stravinsky and Greek Antiquity", Stravinsky in Context, Composers in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 213–221, doi:10.1017/9781108381086.030, ISBN 978-1-108-42219-2, S2CID 229406765, retrieved 3 March 2023
  18. ^ Craft, Robert (December 1982). "Assisting Stravinsky: On a misunderstood collaboration". The Atlantic. Vol. 250, no. 6. pp. 64–74. ISSN 1072-7825. Retrieved 4 March 2023.

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