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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.
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Diaghilev was impressed enough that he commissioned Stravinsky to write some arrangements for the 1909 ballet season. [8] In the following years, Diaghilev commissioned Stravinsky to write three ballets: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913). [9] These ballets remain Stravinsky's most famous works today. [10] [11 ...
Arms of the Polish Soulima family, from which Stravinsky's family descended. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia—a town now called Lomonosov, about thirty miles (fifty kilometers) west of Saint Petersburg—on 17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882.
The Rite of Spring; S. Scènes de ballet (Stravinsky) Scènes de ballet (Ashton) Scènes de ballet (Wheeldon)
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