- Fact 2 - Date of Birth: Stravinsky was
born on June 17,1882
- Fact 3 - Place of Birth: Lomonosov,
near St. Petersburg, Russia
- Fact 4 - Full Name: Igor
Fyodorovich Stravinsky
- Fact 5 - Lifespan of Igor
Stravinsky: 1882-1971
- Fact 6 - Name of mother and father:
His parents names were Fyodor Stravinsky and Anna Kholodovsky
- Fact 7 - Family background: Fyodor
Stravinsky sang opera at the Imperial Opera House in St.
Petersburg. His mother also sang and played piano
- Fact 8 - Childhood and education:
Despite their musical backgrounds his parents were keen for Igor
to take up law, but he did not complete his law degree
preferring a musical career encouraged by composers such as
Nikolay
Rimsky-Korsakov
- Fact 9 - Stravinsky married his
cousin Catherine Nossenko in 1906 with whom he had four children
- Fact 10 - He spent much of his time
in Europe during WW1 living in Switzerland and France, his wife
died in 1939
- Fact 11 - Igor Stravinsky left
Europe for America in 1939 and in 1940 married dancer Vera de
Bosset, with whom he had been conducting an affair since 1921
- Fact 12 - Stravinsky and Vera
became U.S. citizens in 1945 and lived in California and then
New York
- Fact 13 - Stravinsky famously wrote
some major pieces for Sergei Diagheliv, founder of the Ballet
Russes, including "The Firebird" and "The Rite of Spring."
- Fact 14 - Igor Stravinsky suffered
from various respiratory problems from which he eventually died
- Fact 15 - Date of Death: He died on
April 6, 1971 in New York
- Fact 16 - His music lives on and
the musical works of Stravinsky include the following:
- The Firebird
The Rite of Spring
Renard
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Violin Concerto in D Major
Oedipus Rex
The Rake's Progress
Requiem Canticles
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