Trivia

He is considered by many to the greatest composer of the 20th Century, largely on the strength of his ballet "The Rite of Spring". Stravinsky was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His star, awarded for his work on radio, is located at 6340 Hollywood Blvd. He is the only classical composer to be so honored.

Is generally regarded as the father of "modern" classical music; a riot ensued at the 1913 premiere of his ballet Le Sacre du Primtemps.

Recorded a number of his works with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra in the 1960s, all of which he conducted.

Settled in the United States in 1939 after having become a French citizen in 1934. Became a U. S. citizen in 1946.

Was very much opposed to 12-tone writing, or serialism, early in his career, then turned to that style of composition in the 1950s.

His 1913 ballet,"Le Sacre du Printemps" (The Rite of Spring), caused the greatest single revolution in classical music since Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony in the early 1800s. It was a complete break from the Romanticism of the nineteenth century with its strange and dissonant rhythms and sounds. It was a fiasco upon its premiere, but began to win wide acceptance as a concert piece just a year later.

Stravinsky was the only living composer whose music was featured in the original Fantasia (1940). Paul Dukas, composer of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", had died five years earlier.

Father of Théodore Stravinsky.

He was a mentor of Ellis B. Kohs.

Commander of the Ancient, Most Noble and Enlightened Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, of the Scientific, Literary and Artistic Merit of Portugal (25 July 1966).

Walt Disney offered Stravinsky $5,000 to use music from "The Rite of Spring" in Fantasia (1940). When the composer balked at the sum, Disney informed him that "The Rite" was public domain in the US and he was not obligated to pay anything. As a recent arrival from war-torn Europe, Stravinsky grudgingly took the money. He would live in Los Angeles for 29 years but would never score a Hollywood feature film.

In 1987 he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame in 2004.

He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship.

In the 1940s, Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schönberg - probably the two most influential composers of the first half of the 20th century - lived as virtual neighbors on the Westside of Los Angeles. They studiously avoided each other.

Resided at the Ansonia Hotel, 2109 Broadway, in Manhattan, New York.