Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (, ) (June 17 1882 – April 6 1971) was a Russian composer, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influential composer of 20th century music.Page 2006; Robinson 2004; Anonymous 1940; Théodore and Denise Strawinsky 2004, 166; Cohen 2004, 30. He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the century.Glass 1998[LINK: http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/stravinsky.html] [1]. In addition to the recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a pianist and a conductor, often at the premières of his works. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Russian Bal

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