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Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently corrected. A listof other corrections made can be found at the end of the book.
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Igor Stravinsky was born at Oranienbaum,3 near St. Petersburg, on June 5th (18th),1882. His father, an operatic singer, who won great favour with thepublic of the Russian capital at the Maryinsky Theatre, soon discoveredremarkable musical gifts in the boy, which he did not neglect todevelop, although he wished him to grow up to a legal career. Inaccordance with this plan, Igor Stravinsky, on having reachedadolescence, entered the University of St. Petersburg and devotedhimself to the study of jurisprudence, not without periodical and almostirresistible impulsions to abandon it for music. He had thus reached theage of twenty-two, when a meeting with Rimsky-Korsakov, who saw andappreciated the young man's astonishing talent, proved the decisiveevent of his life. Rimsky-Korsakov declared himself willing to accepthim as a pupil.
The direct outcome of Rimsky-Korsakov's tuition was, first of all, aSymphony, begun in 1905 and finished in 1907. This was succeeded by"Faun and Shepherdess," a song-cycle with orchestra, and two orchestralworks, "Fireworks" and "Scherzo fantastique." The latter was the meansof bringing about a meeting that was destined to direct Stravinsky'sactivities into a new channel: he made t