Sergey Stravinsky biography

From the age of nine, Stravinsky began to take piano lessons in private, at the age of eighteen, at the insistence of his parents, he entered the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University at the same time proceeding to independent study of musical and theoretical disciplines. This was the only composer School of Stravinsky, thanks to which he took possession of the perfect composer profession.

Under the leadership of Rimsky-Korsakov, the first works were written-Scherzo and Sonata for Piano, a suite for a voice with the Favn and Shepherd orchestra. The latter was attended by Sergey Diaghilev, who praised the talent of a young composer. After some time, Diaghilev invited him to create a ballet for staging in the "Russian seasons" in Paris.

Within three years of cooperation with the Diaghilev troupe, Stravinsky wrote three ballets that brought him world fame-the Ballet "Firebird", the ballet "Parsley" and the ballet "Spring Spring". During these years, Stravinsky periodically travels from Russia to Paris and vice versa, and in the year, before the start of the First World War, he went to Switzerland, where he remains for the next four years.

After the war ended, Stravinsky decides not to return to Russia, and after some time he moves to France, where he lived the next 20 years. During this period, Stravinsky creates numerous works in different genres: the opera "Mavra", the Opera-Orator "King Oedipus", the symphony of the spiritual memory of Debussy, the compositions for chamber ensembles, piano and voice. In the year, new ballets appear - "Apollo Musaget" and "Fairy kisses", and two years later - the famous and grandiose "symphony of psalms" on the Latin texts of the Old Testament.

Since the year, Stravinsky periodically visits the tour of the United States, during which his creative ties with this country are strengthened. In the year, the “game of cards” was put in the metro-opera, a year later-the Dambarton-Ox concert was performed, Stravinsky is invited to give a lecture course at Harvard University. Finally, in connection with the war, Stravinsky decides to move to the United States.

The composer settles first in San Francisco, and then in Los Angeles. In the year, he becomes an American citizen. Since the beginning of the 10ths, Stravinsky begins to use a serial principle in his writings. The transition was the composition of the cantata to the verses of the English anonymous, in which the tendency of the total polyphonization of music was clearly indicated, to which Stravinsky always gravitated.

The apotheosis of the whole work of Stravinsky is the REQUIEM CANTICES "FREEMENT CANNITIONS", the Requiem for Contraultho and Bas Solo, Choir and Orchestra. Stravinsky very actively toured in Europe and the world as a conductor and pianist. In the fall of the year, for the first time after a long break, he comes with concerts in the USSR, where he conducts in Moscow and Leningrad.

He died on April 6, was buried in the San Michele cemetery in Venice.