Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer and conductor, whose works had a revolutionary impact on the musical thought of the early twentieth century Europe. Born in the late nineteenth century to a musician father in Russia, he was sent to the University of Petersburg to study law; but he never became a lawyer. Instead, he studied music under noted composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and went on to become one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated composers. He first achieved international fame at the age of twenty-eight with a ballet called ‘The Firebird.’ Since then, his life as well as his creations has been divided into three distinct phases. Initially, his workswere based on Russian myths and folklores. Experts have named this period of his life as the Russian phase.Next from 1920 onwards, he began to live in France and cut off from Russia andstarted following Neo Classicalism; experts call this phase as the French phase. The last phase is known as the American phase. In this period, he becamean American citizen and mainly used serial compositional techniques in his creations. Almost all his pieces have a distinction of theirown and many of them have found a place in the standard repertory.