Soulima Stravinsky

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Sviatoslav Soulima Stravinsky ( Russian Святослав Игоревич Сулима-Стравинский Svyatoslav Igorevich Sulima-Stravinsky , * 23. September 1910 in Lausanne ; † 28. November 1994 in Sarasota , Florida ), a son of Igor Stravinsky was a Russian - Swiss composer and pianist .

Life

Soulima Stravinsky was born in Switzerland as the son of the composer Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) and his wife Katerina Nossenko (1881–1939) as the third of four children. At the age of five he started playing the piano. He later studied piano with Isidore Philipp and theory and composition with Nadia Boulanger in France . His first appearance as a professional pianist took place in France in 1930. In 1934 he and his father played the world premiere of his Concerto for 2 solo pianos in Paris . He subsequently performed as a pianist with his conducting father in South America and Europe.

When the Second World War broke out , Soulima Stravinsky joined the French army. In 1944 he married Françoise Blondlat and in 1945 their son John was born. After the end of the war, Stravinsky resumed his concert activities, which since 1948 also took him to the USA. In 1950 he became a faculty member at the University of Illinois' Faculty of Music . Until the second half of the 1970s, he combined teaching in the USA with that of the concert pianist. In 1974 he was awarded the “ Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres ” award by the French Ministry of Culture. In 1978 Stravinsky moved to Florida.

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Soulima Stravinsky's interest in composition was stimulated by copying his father's manuscripts. A minuet was the fifteen year old's first own composition. In the early 1940s he wrote film scores for French documentaries, and in 1946 a piano sonata and a number of songs.

A focus of the compositional, stylistically inconsistent work of Soulima Stravinsky was on works of an instructive character or music for children, for example the piano works The Art of Scales (24 Preludes) , 6 Sonatinas for Young Pianists , Music Alphabet or Piano Music for Children (2 volumes ). In the later years he wrote chamber music works, including string quartets and a cello sonata. He also composed a number of cadenzas for Mozart's piano concertos .

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SURNAME Stravinsky, Soulima
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sulima-Stravinsky, Svyatoslaw Igorewitsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Swiss composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1994
Place of death Sarasota , Florida