L'Oiseau de feu - The Firebird
composer: Igor Stravinsky
preface: Herbert Schneider
translator preface (English): Lionel Salter
Ballet suite 1945
for orchestra
Premiere: October 24, 1945 New York, NY, Metropolitan Opera House (USA) · Conductor: Jascha Horenstein · Costumes: Marc Chagall · Stage design: Marc Chagall · Choreography: Adolph Bolm (first scenic performance)
Instrumentation: orchestra
Orchestra instrumentation: 2 (beide auch Picc.) · 2 · 2 · 2 - 4 · 2 · 3 · 1 - P. S. (Trgl. · Beck. · Tamb. · kl. Tr. · gr. Tr. · Xyl.) (3 Spieler) - Hfe. · Klav. - Str.
Publisher: Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH
Duration: 28' 0''
Year of composition: 1909/1910, rev. 1945
Edition: study score
Series: Eulenburg Miniature Scores
Series: Eulenburg Miniature Scores
Edition description: New Edition
144 Pages - Paperback/Soft Cover
ISMN: 979-0-2002-1110-8
ISBN: 978-3-7957-6238-4
Order number: ETP 1389
Content
Preface/Vorwort
1 Facsimile
1a. Introduction
1b. Prelude and Dance of the Firebird
1c. Variations (Firebird)
2. Pantomime I
3. Pas de deux (Firebird and Ivan Tsarevich)
4. Pantomime II
5. Scherzo (Dance of the Princesses)
6. Pantomime III
7. Rondo (Khorovod)
8. Infernal Dance
9. Lullaby (Firebird)
10. Final Hymn
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