Igor’s life between 1905 and 1910 changed in interesting ways. He was married to his cousin Yekaterina Gavrilovna on January 23 1906. They had two children named Fyodor and Ludmila, born in 1907 and 1908. Eventually he would have a second son. In 1909, Igor had two orchestral works played: Scherzo fantastique and Feu d’artifice. They were performed at a concert in Saint Petersburg, where Sergei Diaghilev also attended. He was so impressed by Fireworks that he hired Igor for work. Sergei had Igor perform some orchestrations and also compose a full-length ballet called The Firebird. The Firebird debuted on the 25th of June in 1910 and assisted Igor to become an overnight sensation in Paris. These years changed his life for the better. After Igor’s last work was a hit he would continue to orchestrate music. Igor would continue to work for the Ballets Russes: Petrushka and Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring). After the Rite of Spring was finished Igor fell ill. He contracted typhoid from eating oysters and had to stay in a Paris nursing home until July 11. At this time though, he drew his attention to completing his first opera, the …show more content…
He would have a fourth child in 1914, Marie Milena. After she was born Igor’s wife would be found to have tuberculosis and was confined to a hospice in the Alps. Igor and his family stayed nearby where he finished his work Le Rossignol. They would finally be able to return to Clarens in April but the Moscow Free Theatre was now bankrupt. This meant that the play would then have to be performed under Diaghilev’s sponsorship. The Nightingale was first performed at the Paris Opera on May 26th of 1914. The play did not receive a lot of success with the public and the critics because it was compared to his previous work, The Rite of Spring. The composers in the audience did admire the craftsmanship of the piece though. Things would continue to be tough for