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The Rite of Spring [n 1] (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
"Frühlingsfeier" (English: "Spring Festival" or "Rite of Spring") is a song composed by Richard Strauss using the text of a poem with the same name by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), the fifth in his Opus 56 collection, (TrV 220) which was published in 1906. Originally written for piano and voice, Strauss wrote an orchestral version in 1933.
As one does, looking for something else I found on the internet this pdf, "Rigoroso (♪ = 126)": "The Rite of Spring" and the Forging of a Modernist Performing Style by Robert Fink, in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 299-362.It says the autograph is in the Paul Sacher institute.
Among them are quotes from luminaries like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain, who amusingly summed up spring's unpredictable weather by observing, "In the Spring, I ...
To celebrate the first day of spring on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, and the entire season of hope and new beginnings, we have gathered the 50 best spring quotes to brighten your day, as well as the ...
From funny thoughts by Robin Williams to heartfelt musings from Mark Twain, here are 73 spring quotes to get in the spirit The season brings blossoming flowers, warmer weather and the chance to ...
Vaslav or Vatslav Nijinsky (/ ˌ v ɑː t s l ɑː f n ɪ ˈ (d) ʒ ɪ n s k i /; Russian: Вацлав Фомич Нижинский, romanized: Vatslav Fomich Nizhinsky, IPA: [ˈvatsləf fɐˈmʲitɕ nʲɪˈʐɨnskʲɪj]; Polish: Wacław Niżyński, IPA: [ˈvatswaf ɲiˈʐɨj̃skʲi]; 12 March 1889 [1] [2] /1890 [3] – 8 April 1950) was a Russian [4] ballet dancer and choreographer of ...
The full score was completed on 11 May 1911, and on the following 13 June Petrushka was performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, under the baton of Pierre Monteux. [1] Three Movements from Petrushka for the solo piano were composed ten years later for his friend, pianist Arthur Rubinstein, and are dedicated ...