Born in Russia, Igor Stravinsky was on track to become a lawyer until he began composition studies with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He started his career in Paris with three ballets written for choreographer Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes : The Firebird , Petrushka , and The Rite of Spring , the last of which is legendary for causing a riot at its premiere. The Rite especially was a model of neo-primitivism , in which Stravinsky used very small cells of notes to create orchestral textures that often featured intense, driving rhythms.
In the s he largely abandoned his primitivist tendencies and began writing consciously Neoclassical music, which at first baffled his contemporaries, although not as much as his turn to serialism in the s. Still, his music remained popular, and he was consistently seen as a bold and hugely influential composer, perhaps one of the most important of the 20th century.
His reputation endures today, with hundreds if not thousands of performances of his works happening every year. He died an American citizen, having moved to California in Stravinsky wrote the Octet he also called it the Octuor in He conducted its premiere in Paris the following year. Its instrumentation is unusual, with 1 flute, 1 clarinet, and 2 each of bassoons, trumpets, and trombones. I awoke from this little concert in a state of great delight and anticipation and the next morning began to compose.
Coming after intensely rhythmic and primitivist works like The Rite of Spring , the Octet sounds like a mockery of classical forms. Sep 14, Octet, , Flute, clarinet in B and A, 2 bassoons, trumpet in C. Piano Sonata, , Piano, Sonatas, Stravinsky premiered the work at. Octet Stravinskys first professional conducting job was leading the premiere of his Octet, in a.
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