Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882 –1971) Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский Music scores commissioned by impresario Sergei Diaghilev and performed in the ballets of the dance company Ballets Russes (Russian Ballets) of Paris Le Sacre du Printemps or The Rite of Spring (1913) The ballet was considered innovative and avant-garde, even if they were based on artists’ visionary ideas about Russian ancient paganism It was typical of the period doing avant-garde based on folklore or distant cultures (the so-called primitivism)