Editing Igor Stravinsky (section)

==== First marriage ====
[[File:Katya_Stravinskaya_1907.jpg|alt=Woman wearing a white dress with her hair in a large bun|thumb|[[Yekaterina Stravinsky]] in 1907]]

In August 1905, Stravinsky announced his engagement to [[Yekaterina Nosenko]], his first cousin whom he had met in 1890 during a family trip.{{Sfn|Walsh|2001|loc=2. Towards 'The Firebird', 1902–09}} He later recalled:<blockquote>From our first hour together we both seemed to realize that we would one day marry—or so we told each other later. Perhaps we were always more like brother and sister. I was a deeply lonely child and I wanted a sister of my own. Catherine, who was my first cousin, came into my life as a kind of long-wanted sister{{nbsp}}... We were from then until her death extremely close, and closer than lovers sometimes are, for mere lovers may be strangers though they live and love together all their lives{{nbsp}}... Catherine was my dearest friend and playmate ... until we grew into our marriage.{{Sfn|Stravinsky|Craft|1962|pp=39–40}}</blockquote>The two had grown close during family trips, encouraging each other's interest in painting and drawing, swimming together often, going on wild raspberry picks, helping build a tennis court, playing [[piano duet]] music, and later organizing group readings with their other cousins of books and political tracts from Fyodor Stravinsky's personal library.{{sfn|Walsh|1999|pp=43–44, 47, 56}} In July 1901, Stravinsky expressed infatuation with Lyudmila Kuxina, Nosenko's best friend, but after the self-described "summer romance" had ended, Nosenko and Stravinsky's relationship began developing into a furtive romance.{{sfn|Walsh|1999|p=45}} Between their intermittent family visits, Nosenko studied painting at the [[Académie Colarossi]] in Paris.{{sfn|Strawinsky|Strawinsky|2004|p=64}} The two married on 24 January 1906, at the Church of the Annunciation five miles (eight kilometers) north of [[Saint Petersburg]] – because [[Cousin marriage|marriage between first cousins]] was banned, they procured a priest who did not ask their identities, and the only guests present were Rimsky-Korsakov's sons.{{sfn|Boucourechliev|1987|p=36}} The couple soon had two children: [[Théodore Strawinsky|Théodore]], born in 1907, and Ludmila, born the following year.{{Sfn|White|1979|p=29}}

After finishing the many revisions of the Symphony in E-flat in 1907, Stravinsky wrote ''Faun and Shepherdess'', a setting of three [[Pushkin]] poems for [[mezzo-soprano]] and orchestra.{{Sfn|White|1997|p=18}} Rimsky-Korsakov organized the first public premiere of his student's work with the Imperial Court Orchestra in April 1907, programming the Symphony in E-flat and ''Faun and Shepherdess''.{{Sfn|Walsh|2001|loc=2. Towards 'The Firebird', 1902–09}}{{Sfn|Stravinsky|Craft|1960|pp=58–59}} In 1908, he sent the score of ''[[Feu d'artifice]]'' to Rimsky-Korsakov. It was returned with the note: “Not delivered on account of death of addressee.”<ref name=Schonberg>{{cite news| last=Schonberg| first=Harold| author-link=Harold C. Schonberg| title=Igor Stravinsky: 'An Inventor of Music' Whose Works Created a Revolution| date=April 7, 1971| work=[[The New York Times]]| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/04/07/91278004.html?pageNumber=48}}</ref> Rimsky-Korsakov's death in June 1908 caused Stravinsky deep mourning, and he later recalled that ''[[Funeral Song (Stravinsky)|Funeral Song]]'', which he composed in memory of his teacher, was "the best of my works before ''The Firebird''".{{Sfn|Walsh|1999|p=114}}{{Sfn|Stravinsky|Craft|1960|p=59}}