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For a time he preserved a ring of immigrant Russian friends and contacts, but eventually realized that this would not sustain his intellectual and professional life in the USA. Stravinsky had adapted to life in France, but moving to America aged 58 was a very different prospect. To celebrate his new citizenship, he wrote an orchestral arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner. In 1945, Stravinsky moved to California where he would live the rest of his life. Their marriage had endured for 33 years, but the true love of his life, and partner until his death, was his second wife Vera de Bosset, whom he married in New York in 1940. Not only was he the principal composer for the Ballet Russes, but Stravinsky also collaborated with Pablo Picasso (Pulcinella, 1920), Jean Cocteau (Oedipus Rex, 1927) and George Balanchine (Apollon Musagete, 1928).ĭue to the war in Europe and the death of his first wife, Katerina, in 1939, Stravinsky moved from France to Massachusetts. This desire manifested itself in several of his Paris collaborations. Stravinsky displayed an inexhaustible desire to learn and explore art, literature, and life. He would not return to his home country of Russia for over 40 years. He moved back to Paris in 1919 and continued composing for the Ballet Russe even becoming a French citizen. The work was very different from what concert audiences at that time were used to hearing many of them didn't even consider it to be music.īecause of World War I and the October Revolution in Russia, Stravinsky moved to Switzerland in 1914. In 1913, the premiere of The Rite of Spring nearly caused a riot in the concert hall. During his stay in the city, he composed three major works for the Ballets Russe-L'Oiseau de Feu, Petroushka, and Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring). Stravinsky left Russia for the first time in 1911, going to Paris to attend the premiere of The Firebird. That ballet ended up being the famous L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) This came to the attention of Sergei Diaghilev, the director of the Ballet Russe, who commissioned Stravinsky to compose a ballet for his theatre. In 1908, his first symphony was performed. Upon graduation from college, Stravinsky married Katerina Nossenko and embarked upon a career in music instead of one in law. However, he also continued his music studies, which included composition lessons with the famous Russian composer Nickolai Rimsky-Korsakov. For this reason, Stravinsky studied law for several semesters at the University of St. Although his father was a singer, his parents wanted their son to become a lawyer and not a musician. Petersburg, Stravinsky began piano lessons at age 9. The son of a leading bass at the Mariinsky Theatre in St.
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