Feuervogel igor stravinsky biography
Igor stravinsky and coco chanel.
On June 25 1910, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird opened to acclaim at the Paris Opéra.
Feuervogel igor stravinsky biography
The success propelled its composer, then aged 28, to international prominence, a position of influence he would retain for six decades.
The ballet’s myth-like storyline features a magical Firebird, who helps a young prince rescue a coterie of princesses from Kashchey, an evil sorcerer.
Based on the eponymous bird of Russian folklore, it has ultimately propagated some myths of its own - relating to the artistic ideals of the team who created it, and the narrative’s historical accuracy.
Most crucial, though, is the composer himself who, through successive elaborations of his own biography, engaged in myth-making on an extensive scale.
Notable for what Stravinsky expert Richard Taruskin terms his “celebrated mendacity”, questions have lingered as to whether certain of the composer’s early musical ideas were as original as they seemed.
Conservative ‘modernists’
After The Firebird, Stravins