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Definition of Igor Stravinsky

1. Noun. Composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971).

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Literary usage of Igor Stravinsky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"In this kind of music, no one, and least of all his greatest contemporary and our lasting delight Igor Stravinsky, competes with Hindemith. ..."

2. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1917)
"Russian music included a firstling symphony by Igor Stravinsky; ... important foreign novelties: three fascinating sketches by Igor Stravinsky, for strings; ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"... which vitalizes the music of Igor Stravinsky. Cur. Opinion. 57: 108-9. Ag. '14. Straw marqueterie. G. Teall. 11. Am. Homes. man. No. Am. 199: 13:t-42. ..."

4. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"In any discussion of the vivid exuberant and startingly original work of Igor Stravinsky, there must be an acknowledgment of his debt to his French ..."

5. Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars by James E. Hassell (1991)
"A very few Russian émigrés participated fully in this ferment, those like the Prince and Princess Yusupov and Igor Stravinsky in Paris, or, ..."

6. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1897)
"Miss Angela Diller — Two manuscript scores of Igor Stravinsky: Symphonic de Psaumes, reduction pour piano et chant [par son fils ..."

7. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... The Gown of Glory, 1952 Craft introduced her to the noted composer Igor Stravinsky —Current Biography, July 1967 my idea of introducing him that evening ..."

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