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Stravinsky and his world

Written by Tobias Bleek

Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy
Among Stravinsky’s early friends and supporters in Paris was Claude Debussy. When the famous French composer attended a performance of 
Petrushka
 in 1911, he was thrilled at what he heard. A year later the two men played through Stravinsky’s watershed work, 
The Rite of Spring
, at the piano. 
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Stravinsky and Russian folk music
Stravinsky developed his unique musical idiom during this period of his life through a creative encounter with Russian folk music. The earliest examples of his novel approach to folk tunes are found in the score of 
Petrushka
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