How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition Season 1 Episode 47 Early 20th-Century Modernism—Igor Stravinsky

We continue our exploration of early 20th-century modernism with a discussion of Igor Stravinsky. He gained almost instant fame in Paris with The Firebird in 1910, which displays aspects of tradition and innovation, the latter marked by Stravinsky's idiosyncratic use of rhythm. Stravinsky's early experiments reach a pinnacle in Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (1912).