Stulecie Święta wiosny Igora Strawińskiego – w perspektywie recepcji dzieła
The Centenary of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in Terms of the Work’s Reception

Summary/Abstract: The centenary of the Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, an iconic work of the 20 th century, a source of inspiration for diverse trends in contemporary art as well as music, the true test for the mastery of orchestras and conductors, ballet companies and choreographers, is a pretext for a discussion of its reception in various areas of modern culture. The author focuses on several selected aspects. One of these is the role of scandal in art as a factor in exploring the society’s degree of artistic consciousness. Another is treating Stravinsky’s work as a great metaphor of the 20 th century with all its atrocities and paradoxes in the historical-sociological perspective presented in a study by Modris Eksteins, serving as the leitmotif in Alejo Carpenter’s multilayered postmodern novel, but also shown in the context of the present ecological issues in a book on eco-aesthetics by Maria Gołaszewska. Yet Rite of Spring, as it accumulates ever new interpretations (e.g. in the categories of evocation of savagery and barbarity in 20 th -century art, of transgressing ever new taboos, conventions of genre, etc.), is above all a work that signals the beginning of modernism in music by its novel approach to rhythm, harmony and instrumentation. This is why its impact on the generations of musicians both closest to the year 1913 and those that followed is a highly significant element of the study of the development of music in the 20 th century.

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