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IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1871)

The Firebird Suite (1910; version from 1919)

Introduction - The Firebird and its Dance
Round of the Princesses (Khorovod)
Infernal Dance of King Kaschei
Berceuse
Finale


The first of Igor Stravinsky's three famous early ballets, The Firebird is the most traditional and derivative. While The Firebird, similar to Petrushka and The Rite Of Spring, is unquestionably one of Stravinsky's masterpieces, if considered strictly historically it can be, with some justice, viewed as warmed-over Rimsky-Korsakov (the device of contrasting a folkloristic, diatonic style representing human characters, with a highly chromatic style reserved for depicting the supernatural had its most conspicuous use in Rimsky's opera The Golden Cockerel) burnished with a patina of Debussy (the specifically colouristic orchestral opulence, although reflecting the influence of Stravinsky's teacher Rimsky-Korsakov, sometimes additionally suggests the Debussy of La Mer). For...

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Title: Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite: An Analysis
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1. Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite: An Analysis
   

   Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite: an analysis. IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1871)
   The Firebird Suite (1910; version from 1919) Introduction ...