Great Masters: Stravinsky—His Life and Music

Robert Greenberg

Lectures

8

Per lecture

47 min

Total

~6 hrs

Source

The Great Courses

Stravinsky composed what is arguably one of the two most important musical compositions of the twentieth century, The Rite of Spring. He forged a new "musical language" to portray the sense of the ballet's primitive and earthy theme. More than a dozen excerpts of Stravinsky's works are examined.