Portrait of Igor Stravinsky by Picasso, 1921, Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Igor Stravinsky was an influential and controversial Russian composer in the early twentieth century. Stravinsky first gained fame with a series of ballets written from 1910 to 1913. Some of his work used new musical ideas that were so controversial they incited riots. He continued to compose as he moved to Switzerland and France, and finally moved to the United States in 1939. He composed several more highly successful and influential operas while living in America. By the time of his death in 1971, he was credited with introducing, in the words of the New York Philharmonic director, “something radically new, even foreign to the Western tradition.”
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