![]() ![]() ![]() At its premiere in 1913 in Paris, the audience broke out into a riot when the music and dancing turned harsh and dissonant. When Stravinsky played part of the piece for director of the theater where it would be performed, the director asked, "How much longer will it go on like that?" Stravinsky replied, "To the end, my dear." He titled the piece The Rite of Spring. Stravinsky composed the piece on a piano in a rented cottage, and a boy working outside his window kept shouting up at him that the chords were all wrong. He then got an idea for a ballet about a pagan ritual in which a virgin would be sacrificed to the gods of spring by dancing herself to death. It was wildly popular, and he traveled all over Europe to conduct it. ![]() His first major success as a composer was a ballet based on a Russian folk tale, called The Firebird (1909). It's the birthday of the avant-garde composer Igor Stravinsky (1882), born in Oranienbaum, near St. ![]()
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