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Fokine's style of dance made great use of interpretive movement; he used ideas of expressiveness, naturalism, vitality, and stylistic consistency. [55] The choreographer employed many forms of dance in The Firebird. The titular Firebird danced classically, Koschei and his subjects in a more violent and grotesque manner, and the Princesses in a ...
All three movements include wild and rapid jumps which span over two octaves, complex polyrhythms, extremely fast scales, and tremolos. The third and largest movement is known for long, relentless trills in thirds, some even in the four fingers of the left hand while the thumb carries a separate melody.
Petrushka (French: Pétrouchka; Russian: Петрушка) is a ballet by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.It was written for the 1911 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine and stage designs and costumes by Alexandre Benois, who assisted Stravinsky with the libretto.
Stravinsky worked on the opening Nocturne in A-flat major and the closing Grande valse brillante; his reward was a much bigger commission, to write the music for a new ballet, The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) for the 1910 season. [6] Stravinsky worked through the winter of 1909–10, in close association with Fokine who was choreographing The ...
Many of Stravinsky's works, including The Firebird, Renard, and L'Histoire du soldat were inspired by Alexander Afanasyev's famous collection Russian Folk Tales. [219] [256] [257] Collections of folk music influenced Stravinsky's music; numerous melodies from The Rite of Spring were found in an anthology of Lithuanian folk songs. [258]
Movements is a 1959 five-movement work for piano and orchestra by Igor Stravinsky lasting about ten minutes. It was written during his serial period [ 1 ] and shows his dedication to that idiom as well as the influence of Anton Webern .
This list is sorted by numbers assigned to Stravinsky's works in Helmut Kirchmeyer's K Catalog. The Kirchmeyer-Verzeichnis (shortened as "K") Catalog is an annotated catalog of works by Stravinsky, started in the 1950s originally placed in appendixes of other works about Stravinsky.
La Fin du jour, to music by Maurice Ravel, 1979; The Firebird, Igor Stravinsky, 1910; Five, Charles Wuorinen, 1988; Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan, to music by Johannes Brahms, 1976; Five Movements, Three Repeats, to music by Max Richter and Clyde Otis, 2012; Flames of Paris, Boris Asafyev, 1932