Igor Stravinsky was all of 28 years old in 1910 when he landed his first big hit, the ballet score to The Firebird, composed for the Ballets Russes, the influential dance company based in Paris.

The Firebird was the first of two folklore ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky and commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes (Petrushka followed). The ballet premiered at the Paris Opera ...

Petrushka London Philharmonic Orchestra Klaus Tennstedt, Conductor Igor Stravinsky, Composer (The) Firebird Suite Igor Stravinsky, Composer Klaus Tennstedt, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra ...

Igor Stravinsky looms large in the pantheon of modern composers. Both the White House and the Kremlin sent representatives to his April 1971 funeral in Manhattan. Two weeks later, thousands swelled ...

Stravinsky's score was composed for a 1911 ballet about a magician (sometimes called the Charlatan), who brings three puppets to life: the querulous loser Petrushka, a seductive Ballerina and a ...

It’s not overstating the case to say that Igor Stravinsky changed the world. With the 1910 premiere of “The Firebird,” the Russian composer became an overnight sensation. Created for Ballets Russes, ...