Stravinsky Research Paper

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Stravinsky’s pieces made a lasting impression on the world. One of his most famous piece is L’Oiseau de feu or The Firebird, originally written in 1910, and premiered June 25 as music for a ballet. He revised this piece for smaller orchestration in 1919, and again in 1945. Another lasting piece he wrote was Le Sacre du printemps or The Rite of Spring, also a ballet piece. He wrote this piece in of 1913 and was premiered on May 25. The origin of the piece was in a vision he got while he was in the middle of writing The Firebird. He held on to this vision of people sacrificing a young girl to the God of the spring and he kept this in his mind until he finished the firebird and wrote it three years later.

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