Igor Stravinsky
3,218,708 plays (316,884 listeners)
Russian Federation (1882 – 1971)
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский ) (17th June 1882 – 6th April 1971) was a Russian composer who first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet): L’Oiseau de feu (“The Firebird”) (1910), Petrushka (1911), and Le sacre du printemps (“The Rite of Spring”) (1913). More…
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