Stravinsky

[ struh-vin-skee; Russian struh-vyeen-skyee ]

/ strəˈvɪn ski; Russian strʌˈvyin skyi /

noun

I·gor Fë·do·ro·vich

[ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/,1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.

Example sentences from the Web for stravinsky

Ragtime was as sophisticated as Stravinsky, Van Vechten asserted, blues singer Clara Smith as sublime an artist as any opera diva.

The Man Who Made American Modernism |Wendy Smith |February 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Composers from Monteverdi to Gluck, to Stravinsky, to Philip Glass, have told it in music.

Ann Wroe’s ‘Orpheus’: Why the Mythological Muse Haunts Us |Ann Wroe |May 31, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Stravinsky is sociable and direct; he writes simply for the enjoyment of player and hearer alike.

Miniature essays: Igor Stravinsky |Anonymous
Stravinsky almost did this in The Nightingale but the break must be more complete.

The Merry-Go-Round |Carl Van Vechten

When we played the Stravinsky pieces here, for instance, his Pétrouschka and Firebird had not yet been heard.

Violin Mastery |Frederick H. Martens
Probably Stravinsky and his musical fireworks will be called a Futurist, whatever that portentous title may mean.

Ivory Apes and Peacocks |James Huneker
So, if it is inexact to say that Stravinsky writes Jazz, it is true to say that his genius has been nourished by it.

Since Czanne |Clive Bell

British Dictionary definitions for stravinsky

Stravinsky

/ (Russian straˈvinskij) /

noun

Igor Fyodorovich (ˈiɡərj ˈfjɔdərəvitʃ). 1882–1971, US composer, born in Russia. He created ballet scores, such as The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913), for Diaghilev. These were followed by neoclassical works, including Oedipus Rex (1927) and the Symphony of Psalms (1930). The 1950s saw him reconciled to serial techniques, which he employed in such works as the Canticum Sacrum (1955), the ballet Agon (1957), and Requiem Canticles (1966)

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