{"id":93418,"date":"2023-09-25T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T07:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/?page_id=93418"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:14:01","slug":"igor-stravinsky-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/discover\/composers\/igor-stravinsky-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say Igor Stravinsky and many people think of The Rite of Spring. The revolutionary music of 1913 turned an entire musical world on its head. Just like several of his most famous works, The Rite of Spring was written as a ballet. Today, more people have listened to orchestral versions than have seen ballet performances with Stravinsky’s music, but it is not difficult to get images: drama, lust, comedy, tragedy, duels and mischief – it is all there.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In Petrushka, a ballet about a puppet theater in carnival times, the orchestra sounds like an entire circus. Each instrument group has a display number, but never at the expense of the whole. At the bottom there is always the common sound, the saturated tonal language that waves forward, towards the future.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In many ways, Igor Stravinsky is the perfect representative of the 20th century. Not only did his modern tonality have the same significance for his century as Mozart had for his. He was also influenced by politics and war, and an artist who understood the importance of originality.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“I decided who I wanted to be – and that’s who I am,” as his famous friend Coco Chanel said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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