The Firebird
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Product ID: BM1 41215
By Igor Stravinsky
Publisher:
Belwin Mills
Arranger:
Jack Bullock
Series:
Belwin Intermediate Full Orchestra
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
3:15
Level: 3
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These thrilling selections from one of the most beloved 20th century musical compositions for symphony orchestra provide a great introduction for younger players to Stravinsky! This transcription provides access at the perfect level.
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Composer
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born, naturalized French, later naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor.
He is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century music.
He was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the century.
He became a naturalized French citizen in 1934 and a naturalized US citizen in 1945. In addition to the recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a pianist and a conductor, often at the premieres of his works.
Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Russian Ballets): The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911/1947), and The Rite of Spring (1913). The Rite, whose premiere provoked a riot, transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure, and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary, pushing the boundaries of musical design.
After this first Russian phase Stravinsky turned to neoclassicism in the 1920s. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso, fugue, symphony), frequently concealed a vein of intense emotion beneath a surface appearance of detachment or austerity, and often paid tribute to the music of earlier masters, for example J.S. Bach and Tchaikovsky.
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