The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer. This edition focuses on the life and works of the Russian pianist and composer Igor Stravinsky . With notes by…

Pour marimba solo avec 4 cymbales et un tam tam.Cette pièce trouve son origine dans la troisième pièce pour quatuor à cordes d'Igor Stravinsky (1914), sorte de choral litanique, harmonisé de manière dissonante. Le thème est entendu au début et suivi de douze variations de caractère, d'allure et de tempo certes différents, mais cherchant toutes à mettre en relief la virtuosité ou la dimension harmo…

Arranged From Three Easy Pieces By Jackendoff.. Par STRAVINSKY. March, Waltz, And Polka were first composed in 1915 as a collection of three Piano duets, Three Easy Pieces, by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. They were written for the composer to playwith his children as they were learning the Piano, so had a considerably easier second part. They have been arranged for Clarinet and Piano by t…

March Waltz And Polka were first composed in 1915 as a collection of three Piano duets Three Easy Pieces by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. They were written for the composer to playwith his children as they were learning the Piano so had a considerably easier second part. They have been arranged for Clarinet and Piano by the American musician Ray Jackendoff a Professor of Linguistics …

The music of Igor Stravinsky's Funeral Song op.5 composed by the young composer as an orchestral memorial to his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov disappeared after just one performance in 1909. Following its rediscovery in 2015 and world premiere in St Petersburg last December orchestras around the world have swiftly added Funeral Song into their current seasons.   The Funeral Song score has bee…

Score and Parts-Composer's NoteThe Canon For Three - In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky (for three equal instrumental voices: at the augmented fourth by inversion and at the unison) was composed for one of the Stravinsky memorial issues of the English music magazine Tempo at the request of David Drew its editor.In proposing the canonic form to a group of European and American composers he was followin…

Igor Stravinsky was still three years away from the incendiary premiere of his ballet The Firebird in Paris when he wrote the Pastorale from which this Alleluia has been adapted. The Pastorale was originally scored as a songwithout words for Soprano and Piano and dedicated to his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov’s daughter Nadia. Stravinsky himself transcribed it several times over several decades for…

Igor Stravinsky's Renard is a one-act opera that tells a burlesque tale of a devious fox who deceives a number of other animals. This corrected and revised edition of the Vocal Score is edited by Millan Sachania.Renard was composed in 1916 after being commissioned by socialite Winaretta Singer. The lyrics of the work are in Russian, Russian transliteration and French. Renard is often seen by criti…

Le 29 mai 2013 voit le 100e anniversaire de la première à Paris d'un travail une fois-dans-un-siècle: Igor Stravinsky 'Le Sacre du Printemps'. Cette date, qui est monumentale pour la musique et le ballet historiographie semblables, marque la percée de l'ère moderne.Pour marquer cet événement, la Fondation Paul Sacher à Bâle qui maintient la succession Stravinsky publie une édition anniversaire en …