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.

According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.

On May 5, Abashidze was forced to flee Georgia as mass demonstrations in Batumi called for his resignation and Russia increased their pressure by deploying Security Council secretary Igor Ivanov.

They argued that existing neural models had failed to produce intelligent behaviour because they were too small, and that in order to create " artificial brains " it was necessary to manually assemble tens of thousands of evolved neural modules together, with the billion neuron " CAM-Brain " requiring around 10 million modules ; this idea was rejected by Igor Aleksander, who said " The point is that these puzzles are not puzzles because our neural models are not large enough.

In September 2010, there was some damage from Hurricane Igor.

Princess Olga was the wife of Igor of Kiev, who was killed by the Drevlians.

" The textbook History of Russia and the World in the 20th century ( 2004 ), by Nikita Zagladin, replaced the National History: 20th century, by Igor Dolutsky ; Zagladin ’ s textbook was produced under the aegis of President Vladimir Putin, who wanted a more patriotic textbook.

Arbeau's " Orchésographie " was used as the basis for Igor Stravinsky's final ballet, Agon, and Peter Warlock's Capriol Suite.

" You never knew what he was going to do ," said hockey Hall of Famer Igor Larionov.

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( sometimes spelled Strawinsky or Stravinskii ; Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, transliterated: Igorʹ Fëdorovič Stravinskij ; ; 6 April 1971 ) was a Russian, and later French and American composer, pianist and conductor.

In his memoirs, Rimsky-Korsakov mentions an 1876 concert at which Borodin's " closing chorus " was performed, the first public performance of any music from Prince Igor identified by him:

The idea of a choral epilogue in the original scenario was no doubt inspired by the example of A Life for the Tsar by Glinka, to whose memory Prince Igor is dedicated.

The son of Igor of Kiev and Olga, Sviatoslav is famous for his incessant campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated the collapse of two great powers of Eastern Europe — Khazaria and the First Bulgarian Empire ; he also conquered numerous East Slavic tribes, defeated the Alans and the Volga Bulgars, and at times was allied with the Pechenegs and Magyars.

Sviatoslav's father, Igor, was killed by the Drevlians around 945 and his mother, Olga, ruled as regent in Kiev until Sviatoslav's maturity ( ca.

His 1982 composition, Le grand tango, for cello and piano was premiered in New Orleons by the Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the pianist Igor Uriash before the end of the year.

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.

This tale may well be apocryphal: Gershwin seems also to have told a near-identical story about a conversation with Arnold Schoenberg, and some have claimed it was with Igor Stravinsky.

On film, he was Igor ( pronounced " EYE-gore "-an ironic response to Wilder's claim that " it's pronounced FRONK-EN-STEEN ") in Young Frankenstein where many lines were improvised.

Like many other composers of the time, he was influenced by the Russian-French émigré Igor Stravinsky.