After living near Paris for a short while, the Stravinsky family moved to the south of France, becoming French citizens in 1934 and returning to Paris that year, to live at the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

A few months after World War II broke out in September 1939, Stravinsky moved to the United States.

In 1969, Stravinsky moved to the Essex House in New York, where he lived until his death in 1971 at age 88 of heart failure.

From the mid 1920s onwards Bliss moved more into the established English musical tradition, leaving behind the influence of Stravinsky and the French modernists, and in the words of the critic Frank Howes, " after early enthusiastic flirtations with aggressive modernism admitted to a romantic heart and given rein to its less and less inhibited promptings " He received two major commissions from American orchestras, the Introduction and Allegro ( 1926 ) for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski and Hymn to Apollo ( 1926 ) for the Boston Symphony and Pierre Monteux.

Shortly after completing his studies, Tansman moved to Paris, where his musical ideas were accepted and encouraged by mentors and musical influences Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel, as opposed to the more conservative musical climate in his native Poland.

That Satie would write a " neo-classical " composition a few months after the succès de scandale of Parade, is not so surprising either: Satie was on friendly terms with Stravinsky since 1911, and after this composer had had his big succès de scandale in 1913 ( premiered with the same Ballets Russes ), he also moved towards neoclassicism-although for Stravinsky there was no distinct neoclassical composition published before Satie's sonatina.

" After being allowed to stage only 2 dance performances ( Orfeo and Eurydice in 1936 and an evening of dances choreographed to the music of Igor Stravinsky in 1937 ), Balanchine moved the company to Hollywood in 1938.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

The cubists, dadaists, Stravinsky, and many later art movements struggled against this conception that beauty was central to the definition of art, with such success that, according to Danto, " Beauty had disappeared not only from the advanced art of the 1960 ’ s but from the advanced philosophy of art of that decade as well.

* 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 )

The 20th century saw many experiments with modern styles, such as atonality and serialism ( Schoenberg and Berg ), Neoclassicism ( Stravinsky ), and Minimalism ( Philip Glass and John Adams ).

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.

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.

Stravinsky called the ballet " the single piece of modern music he could listen to with pleasure ," while Ravel called it " a work of genius.

At the end of his schooldays, Adorno not only benefited from the rich concert offerings of Frankfurt-in which one could hear performances of works by Schoenberg, Schreker, Stravinsky, Bartók, Busoni, Delius and Hindemith-but also began studying music composition at the Hoch Conservatory while taking private lessons with well-respected composers Bernhard Sekles and Eduard Jung.

In these articles, Adorno championed avant-garde music at the same time as he critiqued the failings of musical modernity, as in the case of Stravinsky ’ s The Soldier ’ s Tale, which he called in 1923 a “ dismal Bohemian prank .” In these early writings, he was unequivocal in his condemnation of performances which either sought or pretended to achieve a transcendence which Adorno, in line with many intellectuals of the time, regarded as impossible: “ No cathedral ,” he wrote, “ can be built if no community desires one .” In the summer of 1924, Adorno received his doctorate with a study of Edmund Husserl under the direction of the unorthodox neo-Kantian Hans Cornelius.

* 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.

In the summer of 1902 Stravinsky stayed with the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and his family in the German city of Heidelberg, where Rimsky-Korsakov, arguably the leading Russian composer at that time, suggested to Stravinsky that he should not enter the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire, but instead study composing by taking private lessons, in large part because of his age.

During this period, Stravinsky composed three further works for the Ballets Russes — Petrushka, a ballet in four scenes ( 1911 ), the two-part ballet The Rite of Spring ( 1913 ) and his ' ballet with song ' in one act, Pulcinella ( 1920 ).

Under the terms of his contract with the company, Stravinsky agreed to arrange ( and to some extent re-compose ) many of his early works for the Pleyela, Pleyel's brand of player piano.

From then until his wife's death in 1939, Stravinsky led a double life, spending some time with his first family and the rest with Vera.

During his later years in Paris, Stravinsky had developed professional relationships with key people in the United States: he was already working on his Symphony in C for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and he had agreed to deliver lectures at Harvard during 1939.

They shared the composer's taste for hard spirits – especially Aldous Huxley, with whom Stravinsky spoke in French ".

Stravinsky sometimes conducted concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the famous Hollywood Bowl and he conducted other orchestras throughout the United States.

Stravinsky was reputed to have been a philanderer and was rumoured to have had affairs with high-profile partners, such as Coco Chanel.

However, in the first decades of the 20th century, several composers such as Debussy, Schoenberg, Berg, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Bartók started experimenting with ideas that were to have far-reaching consequences for the way music is written and, in some cases, performed.

Over the next four years, Stravinsky and his family lived in Russia during the summer months and spent each winter in Switzerland, which became a second home to them.

Despite these alleged liaisons, Stravinsky was considered a family man and devoted to his children.

Igor Stravinsky was the son of Fyodor Stravinsky, the principal bass at the Imperial Opera, St Petersburg, and Anna, née Kholodovskaya, a competent amateur singer and pianist from an old-established Russian family.

The breach devastated Antheil, and was not ultimately repaired until 1941, when Stravinsky sent the family tickets to a concert he was giving in Hollywood.

Craft compiled the libretti for Stravinsky's The Flood and A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer, and lived with the Stravinsky family in California and later in New York.

Igor Stravinsky was the son of Fyodor Stravinsky, the principal bass at the Imperial Opera, St Petersburg, and Anna, née Kholodovskaya, a competent amateur singer and pianist from an old-established Russian family.

Stravinsky was still mourning the deaths of his family members when World War II forced him to leave Europe.

Stravinsky had adapted to life in France, but moving to America at the age of 58 was a very different prospect.

The last two had an enormous impact on 20th century music-both in France and abroad-and influenced many major composers like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky.

* Walsh, Stephen, Stravinsky, A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882 – 1934 ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 ).

In 1945 he published a paper declaring that " true French music owes nothing to Stravinsky ", though both composers drew heavily upon themes of ancient music in their work ; Jolivet and La jeune France rejected neoclassicism in favor of a less academic and more spiritual style of composition.

Stravinsky as drawn by Pablo Picasso | Picasso in Paris on 31 December 1920

Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso collaborated on Pulcinella in 1920.

Stravinsky as drawn by Picasso ( 31 December 1920, Paris )

A fictionalization of the supposed affair formed the basis of the novel Coco and Igor ( 2002 ) and a film, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky ( 2009 ).

When Drew went to work for ABC-TV, Leacock Pennebaker was formed and produced Happy Mother's Day, Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop, A Stravinsky Portrait and many others ending with the remnants of Jean-Luc Godard's One A. M .-One P. M. ( 1972 ).