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Prince
Igor: An opera by Alexander Borodin
Igor Sikorsky: Aviation
pioneer
Igor Stravinsky: Influential 20th
century Russian composer
Common clues: Prince of opera;
Sikorsky and Stravinsky; Composer Stravinsky; Borodin's prince;
Inventor Sikorsky; Aviation pioneer Sikorsky; “The Rite of
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composer Stravinsky; Name in a Borodin
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Igor Borodin
A good composer does not imitate; he steals ~ Igor Stravinsky
Prince Igor is an opera in a prologue and four acts by Alexander Borodin (music and libretto). It was first performed in St. Petersburg on November 4, 1890. Borodin left the opera incomplete at his death. It was completed posthumously by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. In the USA, it was first produced at Metropolitan Opera House, New York, December 30, 1915.
Konstantin
Korovin's costume design for Igor in the production of Prince Igor
at the Mariinsky Theatre, 1909
The plot loosely corresponds to the East Slavic epic The Tale of Igor's Campaign.
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Igor
Ivanovich Sikorsky, (25 May 1889 – 26 October 1972) was a
pioneer of aviation who designed the first four-engine fixed-wing
aircraft and the first successful helicopter of the most common
configuration (single main rotor tail rotor).
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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.
Stravinsky
and Pablo Picasso collaborated on Pulcinella in 1920. Picasso took
the opportunity to make several sketches of the composer.
He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people of the century. In addition to the recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a pianist and a conductor, often at the premieres of his works.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Prince Igor", “Igor Sikorsky”, and “Igor Stravinsky”.
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