Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky was born June 17, 1882, in Oranienbaum, Russia, the son of a leading bass singer at a opera house in Saint Petersburg. Although he didn't make the best grades, Stravinsky studied law at the University of Saint Petersburg. There he met the son of Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and his friend's famous father guided Stravinsky's early compositional efforts. In 1908 the Russian impresario Sergey Diaghilev, impressed by Stravinsky's orchestral works 'Scherzo fantastique' and 'Fireworks', asked …showed first 75 words of 564 total…

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