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Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky was born at Oranienbaum on the Gulf of Finland opposite Kronstadt June 5th, When he was a young man his father encouraged him to study law, but Igor was more interested in music. When he went out to pursue his dream he met Rimsky-Korsakov, who taught him all about music. Igor was a composer of modern classical music. He wrote works in the neo- classical and serialist styles, but he is best known for two works from his earlier, Russian period: The Rite of Spring(1913) and The Firebird(1910). Stravinsky also wrote in a broad spectrum of ensemble combinations and classical forms. His oeuvre included everything from symphonies to piano miniatures.

Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso collaborated on Pulcinella in Picasso took the opportunity to make several sketches of the composer.Relatively short of stature and not conventionally handsome, Stravinsky was nevertheless photogenic, as many pictures show. Although a notorious philanderer, Stravinsky was also a family man who devoted considerable amounts of his time to his sons and daughters. He was still young when he married his cousin Katerina Nossenko, who he had known since early childhood, on 23 January Their marriage endured for 33 years, but the true love of his life, and partner until his death, was his second wife Vera de Bosset.

When Stravinsky met Vera in the early 1920s she was married to the painter and stage designer Serge Sudeikin, but they soon began an affair which led to her leaving her husband. From then until the death of Katerina in 1939 Stravinsky led a deft double-life, spending some of his time with his first family and the rest with Vera. Katerina soon learned of the relationship and accepted it as inevitable and permanent. After her death Stravinsky and Vera were married in New York where they had gone from France to escape the war in 1940.

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