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Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky was born at Oranienbaum on the Gulf of Finland opposite

Kronstadt June 5th, 1882. When he was a young man his father encouraged him to study law, but

Igor was more interested in music. When he went out to pursue his dream he met Rimsky-

Korsakov, who taught him all about music. Igor was a composer of modern classical music. He

wrote works in the neo-classical and serialist styles, but he is best known for two works from

his earlier, Russian period: The Rite of Spring(1913) and The Firebird(1910). Stravinsky

also wrote in a broad spectrum of ensemble combinations and classical forms. His oeuvre included everything from symphonies to piano

miniatures.

Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso collaborated on Pulcinella in 1920. Picasso took the opportunity

to make several sketches of the composer.Relatively short of stature and not conventionally handsome, Stravinsky was

nevertheless photogenic, as many pictures show. Although a notorious philanderer, Stravinsky was

also a family man who devoted considerable amounts of his time to his sons and daughters. He was still young when he married his cousin Katerina Nossenko, who he had known since early childhood, on 23 January 1906. Their

marriage endured for 33 years, but the true love of his life, and partner until his death, was his

second wife Vera de Bosset.

When Stravinsky met Vera in the early 1920s she was married to the painter and stage designer Serge Sudeikin, but they soon began an affair which led to

her leaving her husband. From then until the death of Katerina in 1939 Stravinsky led a deft double-life, spending some of his time with his first

family and the rest with Vera. Katerina soon learned of the relationship and accepted it as inevitable and permanent. After her death Stravinsky and Vera

were married in New York where they had gonefrom France to escape the war in 1940.

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