The Firebird
A young composer's dazzling calling card that turned Russian fairy tale into orchestral cinema, its final hymn rising with an inevitability that makes the supernatural feel earned.
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Commissioned by Diaghilev for the 1910 Ballets Russes season in Paris, The Firebird established the 27-year-old Stravinsky as a major voice overnight. While still rooted in his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral tradition, the score's harmonic daring and rhythmic vitality signaled the emergence of something new.
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Explosive rhythmic innovation and orchestral color for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Each successive ballet pushed further from Romantic convention toward a visceral, primitivist energy that would reshape Western music.
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