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Babel

Written in 1944, Stravinsky's Babel is a Cantata for male chorus, male narrator and orchestra.

Igor (Fyodorovich) Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) was a Russian-born composer, conductor, pianist, and writer. While pursuing law studies in 1902, Stravinsky met Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who advised the young man to study music. Stravinsky began studying with the famous Russian composer in 1903, and after Rimsky's death in 1908, never had another teacher.

His ballet The Rite of Spring (1913), with its savage rhythms, absence of melody, and barbaric energy, ignited the most famous riot in the history of music. In 1920, he settled in Paris, and entered a period of neo-classicism, in which he composed music based on the styles and forms of Mozart and Haydn. He became an American citizen in 1940.

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