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Place of Birth
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Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov, Russia)
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Milestones
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1903-1906 Studied privately with Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
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1908 Composed Fireworks to celebrate the marriage of Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter
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1908 Began an association with the Russian ballet company Ballets Russes, for which he composed works including The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913)
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1918 Composed The Soldier's Tale with French-Swiss author Charles Ferdinand Ramuz while living in Switzerland
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1920 Composed Symphonies of Wind Instruments shortly after moving to Paris
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1930 Composed Symphony of Psalms |
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1935 Published Igor Stravinsky, An Autobiography |
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1938 Composed the Concerto in E-flat, also known as Dumbarton Oaks |
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1947 Orpheus was first performed by the New York City Ballet
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1951 Completed the opera The Rake's Progress |
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1957 Agon was first performed by the New York City Ballet
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Did You Know
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Stravinsky became a naturalized citizen of France in 1934, and of the United States in 1945.
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During the first performance of The Rite of Spring, the audience protested so loudly about the unconventional music and choreography that at times the dancers could not hear the orchestra.
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Stravinsky's Circus Polka (1942) was intended to be danced by elephants in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
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Stravinsky's first wife, Katerina Nossenko, was his first cousin.
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Stravinsky left the Russian Catholic Church when he was 18, and rejoined in 1926, composing several religious pieces in the following years.
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