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Stravinsky's Contemporaries - Coggle Diagram
Stravinsky's Contemporaries
Alexander Scriabin
Stravinsky's mother was fond of nagging her son that he was not progressing as fast as Scriabin, and Stravinsky grew heartily sick of hearing it.
Sergei Rachmaninov
Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff were two composers with relatively similar backgrounds. They both came from musical families, both their families were considered to be in the upper echelon of the Tsar (Monarchy in Russia).
They both trained with the best composers and teachers, however their music drastically diverged from one another. Rachmaninoff chose to follow the foolproof methodology of the romantic era composers, whereas Stravinsky chose to create his own methods of composition.
Pre-1920
Sergei Prokofiev
Prokofiev met Sergei Diaghilev in London in 1914, who quickly commissioned his first ballet for the Ballet Russes in Paris. Though in 1915, upon hearing a working version, Diaghilev demanded that he make it more classically Russian, with a stronger nationalistic feel.
Eventually, he worked on a ballet based on a Russian folk tale, first suggested for the Ballet Russes by Stravinsky. Due to his inexperience, it took many revisions over many years to come to the final product of 'Chout', which premiered in 1921 to an audience containing Cocteau, Stravinsky and Ravel. Stravinsky described it as 'the single piece of modern music he could listen to with pleasure.
After the Revolution of 1917, he would be compared to other Russian composers who fled to the US such as Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff. However, he returned in 1936 to live and work in the Soviet Union, eventually dying in Moscow on the same day as Stalin in 1953.
Life In America
Moved to LA in the 1940s around WW2. He had lost his wife and daughter by this time, which definitely had an impact on his music.
Aaron Copland
an American composer, composition teacher and later conductor
best known for his populist style of music
composed well known ballets such as Billy the kid, Appalachian spring and rodeo
Arnold Schoenberg
Was associated with the expressionist movement
He emigrated to the United States in 1933, becoming an American citizen in 1941.
COMPOSITION STYLE WHILE IN AMERICA
neclassicism
then later his serial period
In autumn 1939 Stravinsky had visited the United States to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University, and in 1940 he and his new wife settled permanently in Hollywood, California. They became U.S. citizens in 1945.
During the years of World War II, Stravinsky composed two important symphonic works, the Symphony in C (1938–40) and the Symphony in Three Movements (1942–45). The Symphony in C represents a summation of Neoclassical principles in symphonic form, while the Symphony in Three Movements successfully combines the essential features of the concerto with the symphony.
