"I am no more academic than modern, no more modern than conservative,"
said the one who constantly blurs the tracks.
The scandal of the creation of the
Rite of Spring,
on May 29, 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, is much more linked to choreography than to music, it is a matter of course.
However, it is the musical writing which represents a bomb:
"The coronation of modern music",
Pierre Boulez will say.
It is as if, in three years and three works, Stravinsky had gone from Impressionism to Fauvism with a cubist step.
1910:
The Firebird
pays its debt to its teacher Rimsky-Korsakov, with its translucent and shimmering orchestration.
"Russian vodka with French flavors,"
said Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov, son of the composer.
1911:
Pétrouchka
superimposes, without fear of cacophony, a Viennese waltz to the song
She had a wooden jamb
.
The clarinets scream in the treble while a tuba rumbles in the bass.
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