To complement the BBC Ten Pieces, we have KS2 Music quizzes on each of the featured works and also on all ten of the featured composers. This one is all about the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
Igor Stravinsky was certainly among the few most remarkable musicians to bestride the 20th century, in which the writing and making of music changed more than ever before. Stravinsky wrote many different types of work including operas, ballets, symphonies, concertos, chamber music and choral works. His career last for more than 60 years and he died in 1971 at the age of 88.
How much do you know about the man and his music? In this quiz your knowledge of the composer will be tested, as will your knowledge of some of his ballets other than The Firebird.
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC - KS2: Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird — suite (1911) (Finale)
He was born and raised around St Petersburg where his father was a professional singer
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Yes: almost half a century later, poor man
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The Firebird, of course, was the first of these in 1910
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He and his family were naturalised as French citizens in 1934 and settled in Paris, where unfortunately his wife and eldest daughter each died
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This sounds unlikely, but so the story ran. Stravinsky was an intellectual, foreigner, hard drinker and 'unconventional' performance artist, so it was not totally unlikely that he would come into some form of conflict ... He still became naturalised as a US citizen in 1945 (his second such shift in barely 10 years, since France in 1934)
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Surprising, perhaps ... but it's still there!
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This is the same man who had done the usually-played orchestration of Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain. The sense of epic and elemental orchestral volume, and colour, certainly seems a strong common tradition between these composers
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There were numerous others, of course!
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Parade was by Erik Satie, though it too caused a riot in Paris, 4 years later in 1917 (during the First World War)
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He had already mastered Mendelssohn's concerto for this instrument while he was not yet long into his teens
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