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Ballets By Igor Stravinsky
This is a list of compositions by Igor Stravinsky. By catalogue number By type of composition Opera/theatre * ''The Nightingale'' (''Le Rossignol''), 3-act opera (1914) * ''Renard'', a burlesque for 4 pantomimes and chamber orchestra (1916) *''L'Histoire du soldat'' (''The Soldier's Tale''), for chamber ensemble and three speakers (1918) *''Mavra'', one-act opera (1922) * ''Oedipus rex'', 2-act opera-oratorio (1927) * ''Perséphone'', ''mélodrame'' for speaker, soloists, chorus and orchestra (1933) *''The Rake's Progress'', 3-act opera (1951) * ''The Flood'', television opera (1962) Ballet *''The Firebird'' (''L'oiseau de feu'') (1910; rev. 1919, 1945) *''Petrushka'' (1911, rev. 1947) *''The Rite of Spring'' (''Le sacre du printemps'') (1913; rev. 1947, 1967) *''Les Noces'' (''The Wedding''), for soloists, choir, four pianos and percussion (1914–17 and 1919–23) * ''Pulcinella'', for chamber orchestra and soloists (1920) *''Apollo'' (''Apollon musagète''), for string o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Le Chant Du Rossignol
''Le chant du rossignol'' (English: ''The Song of the Nightingale'') is a symphonic poem written by Igor Stravinsky in 1917. The score is adapted from his earlier work, ''Le rossignol'' (''The Nightingale''), an opera from 1914. The opera, based on Hans Christian Andersen's 1843 tale " The Nightingale", is set in three acts, told from the point of view of a Chinese fisherman. In the orchestral version, Stravinsky mostly uses music from acts two and three. Opera The opera ''Le rossignol'', the first act written in 1908 and the later two in 1913–14, was Stravinsky's first opera. The delay between writing the first and the latter acts was caused by his commissions to write ''The Firebird'', ''Petrushka'', and ''The Rite of Spring'' for impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. After this lapse of time, during which Stravinsky established himself as a ballet composer, he was unsure of returning to ''Le rossignol'', and although he did finish it, he chose to also create a purely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano-Rag-Music
''Piano-Rag-Music'' is a composition for piano solo by Igor Stravinsky, written in 1919. Stravinsky, who had, by that time, emigrated to France after his studies with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in Russia, was confronted with American jazz combos actively influential in Europe. Stravinsky's knowledge of stylistic jazz properties was at first limited to scores brought to him from the United States by his colleague Ernest Ansermet.Allmusic.Piano Rag Music (Archive from 8 October 2007). However, he had managed to hear live jazz bands by the time he finished ''Piano-Rag Music''. Compositionally, Stravinsky interprets the ragtime in a rather cubist way, instead of directly imitating the style. Stravinsky incorporates elements from his Russian period (ostinati, shifting accents, bitonality) with rhythmic and harmonic fragments from ragtime. The irregular meters give the piece an improvisatory character. Stravinsky wrote the piece for Arthur Rubinstein, but it was instead premiered by Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Histoire Du Soldat
' (''The Soldier's Tale'') is a theatrical work "to be read, played, and danced" () by three actors and one or several dancers, accompanied by a septet of instruments. Conceived by Igor Stravinsky and Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, the piece was based on a Russian folk tale drawn from the collection of Alexander Afanasyev called ''The Runaway Soldier and the Devil''. The libretto relates the parable of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil in return for unlimited economic gain. The music is scored for a septet of violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, cornet (often played on trumpet), trombone, and percussion, and the story is told by three actors: the soldier, the devil, and a narrator, who also takes on the roles of minor characters. A dancer plays the non-speaking role of the princess, and there may also be additional ensemble dancers. The original French text by Ramuz has been translated into English by Michael Flanders and Kitty Black, and into German by . A full perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lied Ohne Name
''Lied ohne Name'' (german: Song without a Name), sometimes also entitled ''Lied ohne Namen'' and ''Duet for Two Bassons'', is a composition for two bassoons by Igor Stravinsky. Composition This short sketch was written in 1918, although some sources also mention 1917. The sketches of ''Lied ohne Name'' were found along with the sketches for Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet, whose first movement was dated October 11–14, 1918, in Morges. Since both works are notated in identical handwriting and page layout, some scholars suggest that Stravinsky worked with both pieces in close proximity to each other in the fall of 1918. It was a composition that Stravinsky discarded and abandoned, never revisiting it again or using it as original material in other compositions. The work remained unpublished until 1979, after the composer's death, it was published in the bassoon method ''Learn as you Play'', by Peter Wastall. It was published by Boosey & Hawkes Boosey & Hawkes is a Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étude Pour Pianola
The Étude pour Pianola is a 1917 composition for Pianola by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. The Étude was first published on music roll in 1921 and the premiere was given by Reginald Reynolds at Aeolian Hall in London, on 13 October of that year. Composition As Stravinsky was finishing ''Les Noces'', he traveled to Madrid and became inspired by Spanish music for future compositions. This étude was commissioned by Aeolian Company, as a demonstration piece for their new sensible-to-dynamic-shadings player piano. Stravinsky finished it in 1917. However, it became much more popular later in 1928, when he orchestrated this piece together with the Three Pieces for String Quartet Three Pieces for String Quartet is a composition by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was finished in 1914, revised in 1918, and eventually published in 1922. Composition As most of the works by Igor Stravinsky, this three- movement work was .... The étude was retitled "Madrid", and the orchestr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Noces
''Les Noces'' (French for The Wedding; russian: Свадебка, ''Svadebka'') is a ballet and orchestral concert work composed by Igor Stravinsky for percussion, pianists, chorus, and vocal soloists. The composer gave it the descriptive title "Choreographed Scenes with Music and Voices" and dedicated it to impresario Sergei Diaghilev. Though initially intended to serve as a ballet score, it is often performed without dance. The ballet premiered under the musical direction of Ernest Ansermet at the Ballets Russes with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska on 13 June 1923, in Paris. Several versions of the score have been performed, either substituting orchestra for the percussion and pianos or using pianolas in accordance with a version of the piece that Stravinsky abandoned without completing. Composition Stravinsky first conceived of writing the ballet in 1913 and completed it in short score by October 1917. He wrote the libretto himself using Russian wedding lyrics taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Easy Pieces (Stravinsky)
''Five Easy Pieces'', also referred to by its original French title ', is a collection of pieces for four hands by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was finished in 1917 and was published as a set in the winter of 1917/18. Composition The ''Five Easy Pieces'' were commissioned by French patroness Eugène Murat in November 1916. The original offer was to publish Stravinsky's Three Pieces for String Quartet, which he refused to do. However, he agreed to publish several short pieces, among them '' Renard'', '' Berceuses du chat'' and the soon to be composed ''Five Easy Pieces'' under the Geneva-based company run by Adolphe Henn. Stravinsky composed each of the movements of the collection in only one day in his house in Morges. The first movement, ''Andante'' was composed on January 4, 1917; the third movement, ''Balalaika'', which was also Stravinsky's favorite piece in the set, was composed on February 6, 1917; the fourth one, ''Napolitana'', was composed on February 21, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renard (Stravinsky)
(The Fox: burlesque tale sung and played) is a one-act chamber opera-ballet by Igor Stravinsky, written in 1916. The Russian text by the composer was based on Russian folk tales from the collection by Alexander Afanasyev. The full Russian name of the piece is (– The Fable of the Vixen, the Cock, the Cat and the Goat. A burlesque for the stage with singing and music). History In April 1915, Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac, commissioned Stravinsky to write a piece that could be played in her salon. She paid the composer 2,500 Swiss francs. The work was completed in Morges, Switzerland in 1916, and Stravinsky himself made a staging plan, trying to avoid any resemblance to conventional operatic staging . He created, rather, a new form of theatre in which the acrobatic dance is connected with singing, and the declamation comments on the musical action. However, the piece was never performed in the salon of the princess. It was not in fact staged until 1922. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berceuses Du Chat
The ''Berceuses du chat'' (Russian: ''Kolibelniye'', English: ''Cat Lullabies'') is a cycle of four songs for contralto and three clarinetists composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1915. The work is usually referred to by its French title. Although it is usually sung in Russian, Stravinsky assisted his friend, the Swiss author C.F. Ramuz, to make a translation into French at the time of publication. The titles of the four songs are: # ''Spi, kot'' (''Sleep, Tom-Cat'') # ''Kot na pechi'' (''The Tom-Cat on the Stove'') # ''Bay-Bay'' (''Lullaby'') # ''U kota, kota'' (''O Tom-Cat, Tom-Cat'') Scoring ''Berceuses du chat'' is set for contralto and three clarinettists: E clarinet; B and A clarinet; A clarinet and B bass clarinet. History The ''Berceuses du chat'' were composed in 1915, while Stravinsky was living in Switzerland during World War I.Walsh, Stephen. ''Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934.'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 2000). They are based on Russian folk s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Easy Pieces (Stravinsky)
''Three Easy Pieces'', also referred to by its original French title ''Trois pièces faciles'', is a collection of pieces for four hands by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was finished in 1915 and was published as a set in the winter of 1917. Composition Stravinsky's ''Three Easy Pieces'' can be understood as an example of Gebrauchsmusik, that is, music that was conceived and composed specifically for some purpose, and not for its own sake. In this case, Stravinsky wrote this set and 1917 '' Five Easy Pieces'' especially for educational purposes. After completing his Valse des fleurs, which is similar to them in the sense that they were composed for his little children to play with him, Stravinsky decided to write pieces for four hands to teach them how to play the piano. The set was composed in Clarens, in 1914 and 1915 and was presented and first performed by José Iturbi, on April 22, 1918. It was eventually published in 1917. Analysis The ''Three Easy Pieces'' ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valse Des Fleurs (Stravinsky)
Valse des fleurs (russian: Цветочный вальс, translit=Tsvetochny vals, lit=Flower Waltz) is a short composition for two pianos by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was completed in 1914. Composition Stravinsky's music post-''Rite of Spring'' in the 1910s was devoted to . This example of was specifically conceived for educational purposes, as he was trying to produce music either for four hands or two pianos intended for himself and his son, Soulima. For this reason, the "Valse des fleurs" is generally associated with other compositions for four hands from his Swiss period, such as the '' Three Easy Pieces'' (1915) and the '' Five Easy Pieces'' (1917). The brief (less than 1 minute) "Valse pour les enfants" of 1917, though not for four hands, is also in this vein of instructionally intended pieces. This composition was finished in Clarens, Switzerland, on August 30, 1914. Kept in the composer's personal collection, it remained unperformed and unpublished for d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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