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Fyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky , - ) was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n-Ukrainian
Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
 bass opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 singer and actor. He was the father of Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
 and the grandfather of Soulima Stravinsky
Soulima Stravinsky

Sviatoslav Soulima Stravinsky was a Switzerland-United States pianist, composer and musicology of Ukrainian descent. As a pianist, he was considered an important interpreter of the works of his father, Igor Stravinsky, but as a composer he was overshadowed by his father, just as the sons of Johann Sebastian Bach were by their father....
.

In 1869 he completed his education at the Nizhyn
Nizhyn

Nizhyn is a city located in the Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine, along the Oster River, 150 km north-east of the nation's capital, Kiev....
 Lyceum, where he sang in the church choir. He studied voice at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg Conservatory

The N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students....
 from 1869-73.

Stravinsky started his solo singing career in Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
 (1873-76) before moving to Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
, where he sang at the Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre

The Mariinsky Theatre is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in St Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres....
 for 26 years, from 1876 to 1902.






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Fyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky , - ) was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n-Ukrainian
Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
 bass opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 singer and actor. He was the father of Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
 and the grandfather of Soulima Stravinsky
Soulima Stravinsky

Sviatoslav Soulima Stravinsky was a Switzerland-United States pianist, composer and musicology of Ukrainian descent. As a pianist, he was considered an important interpreter of the works of his father, Igor Stravinsky, but as a composer he was overshadowed by his father, just as the sons of Johann Sebastian Bach were by their father....
.

In 1869 he completed his education at the Nizhyn
Nizhyn

Nizhyn is a city located in the Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine, along the Oster River, 150 km north-east of the nation's capital, Kiev....
 Lyceum, where he sang in the church choir. He studied voice at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg Conservatory

The N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students....
 from 1869-73.

Stravinsky started his solo singing career in Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
 (1873-76) before moving to Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
, where he sang at the Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre

The Mariinsky Theatre is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in St Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres....
 for 26 years, from 1876 to 1902. He was hailed as the successor to Osip Petrov
Osip Petrov

Osip Afanasievich Petrov was a Russian operatic bass-baritone of great range and renown.He started his career by singing in a church chorus, then worked in Russian provincial theaters ....
, he was renowned for his outstanding dramatic talent as an actor, and he was considered the leading bass at the Imperial Opera.

Fyodor Stravinsky died in 1902 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)

Novodevichy Cemetery in Saint Petersburg is a historic cemetery in the South-West part of the city near the Moscow Triumphal Gate. The cemetery is named after the historical Resurrection Convent....
 in Saint Petersburg. His memoir
Memoir

As a literature genre, a memoir , or a reminiscence, forms a subclass of autobiography ? although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are today almost interchangeable....
s are invaluable. Stravinsky also had a unique library which was very popular among bibliophiles.

Stravinsky created a number of roles in operas by Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
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  • His Royal Highness in Vakula the Smith
    Vakula the Smith

    Vakula the Smith , is an opera, Opus number 14, in 3 acts, 8 scenes, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Yakov Polonsky, and is based on Nikolai Gogol story Christmas Eve ....
     in 1876
  • Dunois in The Maid of Orleans
    The Maid of Orleans

    The Maid of Orleans is an opera in 4 acts, 6 scenes, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was composed during 1878?1879 to a Russian language libretto by the composer, based on several sources: Friedrich von Schiller?s The Maid of Orleans as translated by Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky; Jules Barbier?s Jeanne d?Arc ; Auguste Mermet?s libret...
     in 1881
  • Mamirov in The Enchantress
    The Enchantress

    The Enchantress is an opera in four acts by Pyotr Tchaikovsky based on the libretto by Ippolit Shpazhinsky usng his drama with the same title....
     in 1887.
He also appeared in the premiere performance of Nikolai Soloviev's Cordelia (24 November 1880, St. Petersburg), and created the role of Moroz (King Frost) in Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
's opera The Snow Maiden
The Snow Maiden

The Snow Maiden–A Spring Fairy Tale is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880-1881. The Russian language libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexandr Ostrovsky ....
 (1882).

Stravinsky was also known as an active advocate of Mykola Lysenko
Mykola Lysenko

Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukraine composer, pianist, conducting and ethnomusicologist....
's music, often performing the role of Mykola in the opera Natalka Poltavka
Natalka Poltavka

Natalka Poltavka is a Ukraine play written by Ivan Kotlyarevsky....
.

Sources

  • Lysenko, I. A, Dictionary of Ukrainian singers. Kiev, 1997