One ballet by this composer makes use of the Renaissance French dance, bransle, for its serialist second Pas de Trois. Another of his ballets was adapted from music the composer thought to be by Pergolesi and had sets designed by Picasso. Besides Agon and Pulcinella, his other ballets include one written for Sergei Diaghile
One ballet by this composer makes use of the Renaissance French dance, bransle, for its serialist second Pas de Trois. Another of his ballets was adapted from music the composer thought to be by Pergolesi and had sets designed by Picasso. Besides Agon and Pulcinella, his other ballets include one written for Sergei Diaghilev in which the Moor slays the title puppet. He wrote a ballet whose first part, "The Adoration of the Earth," opens with a high bassoon solo, and caused a riot at its 1913 Paris premiere. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring.
One ballet by this composer makes use of the Renaissance French dance, bransle, for its serialist second Pas de Trois.
Igor Stravinsky