Stravinsky

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

/ strəˈvɪn ski; Russian strʌˈvyin skyi /

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noun

I·gor Fë·do·ro·vich

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

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How to use Stravinsky in a sentence

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
But then I found out that Mann drew on firsthand advice from his buddies Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.
What are the Best Novels on Music?|Ted Gioia|October 19, 2013|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
It was more like a Balanchine-Stravinsky pas de deux, full of tension, crashing cymbals and shifting rhythms.
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This seems to me a most interesting recollection, in view of the "cubist" music of Stravinsky and Co. of to-day.
Great Singers on the Art of Singing|James Francis Cooke
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
By this road we lead on to Stravinsky, Casella, and Malipiero.
The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920|Various
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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