His fellow-countryman, Igor Stravinsky, certainly did not.

* 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.

Bartók wrote another ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin influenced by Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, as well as Richard Strauss.

Elfman's classical influences include Béla Bartók, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Carl Orff, Harry Partch, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Igor Stravinsky composed in 1958 Epitaphium for flute, clarinet and harp.

In Eastern Europe, a larger descendant of the hammered dulcimer called the cimbalom is played and has been used by a number of classical composers, including Zoltán Kodály, Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez, and more recently, in a different musical context, by Blue Man Group.

* 1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer ( d. 1971 )

* 1927: Oedipus Rex ( music by Igor Stravinsky )

* 1888 – Vera de Bosset, Russian artist, wife of Igor Stravinsky ( d. 1982 )

Bach, the profound expressive irony of Mahler, the neoclassicism of Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith.

Andriessen's mature music combines the influences of jazz, American minimalism, Igor Stravinsky and Claude Vivier.

* Arrangement of Tango by Igor Stravinsky ( 1972 ) for wind ensemble

* Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude in b minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier BWV 866, arranged for string quartet with the first six bars augmented with a viola part by Igor Stravinsky, completed by Louis Andriessen ( 2006 )

In 1913 — the year of Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and, in Saint Petersburg, the " first futurist opera ," Victory Over the Sun — another Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working in Paris for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, composed The Rite of Spring for a ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that depicted human sacrifice.

After the generally primitivistic / irrationalist aspect of pre-World War I Modernism, which for many modernists precluded any attachment to merely political solutions, and the neoclassicism of the 1920s, as represented most famously by T. S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky — which rejected popular solutions to modern problems — the rise of Fascism, the Great Depression, and the march to war helped to radicalise a generation.

" This sentiment was echoed further in 1930 by Igor Stravinsky, when he stated in the revue Kultur und Schalplatte that " there will be a greater interest in creating music in a way that will be peculiar to the gramophone record.

In the 20th century the traditions of Russian opera were developed by many composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff in his works The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini, Igor Stravinsky in Le Rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress, Sergei Prokofiev in The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace ; as well as Dmitri Shostakovich in The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Edison Denisov in L ' écume des jours, and Alfred Schnittke in Life with an Idiot and Historia von D. Johann Fausten.

Also among the vanguard was the Russian Igor Stravinsky.

In the 1920s and 1930s, economic as well as artistic considerations led to the formation of smaller concert societies, particularly those dedicated to the performance of music of the avant-garde, including Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.

In 1934, Igor Stravinsky based his melodrama Perséphone on Persephone's story.

Ragtime influenced classical composers including Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky.

Under Diaghilev's guidance, Prokofiev chose his subject from a collection of folktales by the ethnographer Alexander Afanasyev ; the story, concerning a buffoon and a series of confidence tricks, had been previously suggested to Diaghilev by Igor Stravinsky as a possible subject for a ballet, and Diaghilev and his choreographer Léonide Massine helped Prokofiev to shape this into a ballet scenario.

The ballet's premiere in Paris on 17 May 1921 was a huge success and was greeted with great admiration by an audience that included Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel.

Perhaps Diaghilev's most notable composer-collaborator, however, was Igor Stravinsky.

* May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris ; its modernism provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history.

Igor Oistrakh will be the next soloist on Feb. 4.

Cocteau wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, which had its original performance in the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris on May 30, 1927.

Krantz argues, on the basis of an analysis by Igor Bourtsev, that since Patterson's height is known, a reasonable calculation can be made of his pace.

* In 2008, a video ( known as " 3 Guys One Hammer ") surfaced on the Internet showing Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuck, known as the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs, torturing and killing a 48-year-old Ukrainian man.

According to Igor Primoratz, " Both Nazis and Soviets sought to impose total political control on society.

Much of Igor Stravinsky's ballet Pulcinella, which ostensibly reworks pieces by Pergolesi, is actually based on spurious works.

" This began a period of about four years in which he proceeded no further on Prince Igor, but began diverting materials for the opera into his other works, the Symphony No 2 in B minor ( 1869 – 76 ) and the collaborative opera-ballet Mlada ( 1872 ).

Borodin worked on Prince Igor, off and on, for almost 18 years.

The tour also featured keyboards from Russian keyboard player Igor Khoroshev, who had played on some of the tracks on Open Your Eyes.

The early part is rich in anecdotal stories, among which are the arrival of the three Varangian brothers, the founding of Kiev, the murder of Askold and Dir, the death of Oleg, who was killed by a serpent concealed in the skeleton of his horse, and the vengeance taken by Olga, the wife of Igor, on the Drevlians, who had murdered her husband.

The next day, after having found Igor and getting back the geese, the gang sets off on their quest to migrate the geese.

Before the credits roll, it is revealed that all 16 geese, including Igor, returned to the Alden's farm the next spring safely and all on their own.

However, under Molotov's leadership the bomb, and the project iself, developed very slowly and Molotov was replaced by Beria in 1944 on the advice of Igor Kurchatov.

The group was considering to use The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky, but Taylor noted that his " Le Sacre du printemps would be something on that order ", to which Disney replied upon hearing a recording, " This is marvelous!

Matt saw her at a party and developed a crush on her, but didn't meet her until Igor invited Gilly to one of their games.

He cites Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Pérotin, Léonin, Claude Debussy and Organum musical style as important influences, but what made the biggest impact on his compositions was the serialism of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern.

On July 8, 2008, The Moscow Times reported that the hearings at the European Court of Human Rights will be closed to the public at the request of Russian authorities as, according to Igor Trunov, they " have promised full disclosure on how they handled the crisis ", including " the makeup of the knockout gas used in the storming of the theater by commandos.

In 1868 Borodin became distracted from initial work on the second symphony by preoccupation with the opera Prince Igor, which is seen by some to be his most significant work and one of the most important historical Russian operas.

The story tells of the capture of Prince Igor and son Vladimir of Russia by Polovtsian leader Khan Konchak, who entertains his prisoners lavishly and calls on his slaves to perform the famous Polovtsian dances, which provide a thrilling climax to the second act.

In 1864, Balakirev considered writing an opera based on the folk legend of the Firebird ( a subject upon which Igor Stravinsky would later base his ballet The Firebird ), but abandoned the project due to the lack of a suitable libretto.

In 2000, Anderson and then-Yes keyboardist Igor Khoroshev worked on an album called True You, True Me.