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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 ...
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.
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.
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; Flight Pattern, to music by Henryk Górecki, 2017
The Rite of Spring [n 1] (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
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Monumentum pro Gesualdo is a 1960 arrangement and recomposition by Igor Stravinsky of three madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo.It was composed to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Gesualdo's birth and was intended to complement Stravinsky's similar Tres Sacrae Cantiones.