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Shown in his diverse musical output, a multitude of influences is one of the distinguishing features of Poulenc's music. Among his formative influences are Igor Stravinsky, Emmanuel Chabrier, and the French popular music and vaudeville. He kept scores of Béla Bartók's Allegro barbaro, Arnold Schoenberg's Six Little Pieces, all of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, and Stravinsky's Petrushka and Le Sacre du Printemps. He attended Le Sacre du Printemps in 1914 conducted by Pierre Monteux at the Casino de Paris, and he wro ...

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After getting the idea of the piece in 1910 from imagery of pagan ritual encountered during the composition of The Firebird, Stravinsky began forming sketches and ideas for the piece, enlisting the help of archaelogist and folklorist Nikolai Roerich. Though he was sidetracked for a year he worked on Petrushka (which he intended to be a light burlesque as a relief from the orchestrally-intense work already in progress), The Rite of Spring was composed between 1912 and 1913 for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Roerich was ...

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Electronic musician Isao Tomita arranged a synthesized version of the short 1919 'Firebird' suite for his 1975 album Firebird. The chapter in the animated film Fantasia 2000 based on Stravinsky's piece takes an unrelated approach, telling the story of a spring Sprite and her companion Elk. After a long winter the Sprite attempts to restore life to a forest but accidentally wakes the Firebird spirit of a nearby volcano. Angered, the Firebird proceeds to destroy the forest and seemingly the sprite. She is restored to life ...

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BIS records: Grieg - Peer Gynt (The Complete Incidental Music) (May 2005) SACD-1441/42 Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel (April 2005) CD-1434 Grieg - Sigurd Jorsalfar (March 2004 SACD-1391 Grieg - Orchestral Dances (May 2003) SACD-1291 Grieg - Piano Concerto (February 2003) SACD-1191 Tubin - The Symphonies (October 2002) CD-1402/04 Britten - The Young Person´s Guide to the Orchestra (January 1989) CD-420 Schumann - Symphonies No.3 & No.4, re-orchestrated by Gustav Mahl ...

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The Rite of Spring is a series of episodes depicting the wild pagan nature of the Spring: "...the wise elders are seated in a circle and are observing the dance before death of the girl whom they are offering as a sacrifice to the god of Spring in order to gain his benevolence," says Stravinsky, of the imagery that prompted the genesis of the work. Though the music is capable of standing alone, and was a great success in the concert-hall, in conception it is inextricably tied to the action on stage. The Rite is divided into two ...

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However, most people will have met the Rite of Spring through Walt Disney's Fantasia, a 1940 animated movie in which imaginative visual images and stories are added to classical music. In 1961, Stravinsky wrote that he received $1,200 (his share of a total $5,000) for the use of his music in the film, explaining that since his music was not copyrighted for use in the USA it could be used regardless of whether he granted permission or not, but that Disney wished to show the film in other countries. In order for the music to foll ...

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