Igor Stravinsky: Three Japanese Lyrics (1913)

[MarcheseCadmio88]

Tsaraiuki? Eh, eh... Actually is Tsurayuki.

Oh well, if it's Stravinskij, I can forgive him anything.

[CurtisMateer]

It took him a few decades to return to the 2nd Viennese school didn't it?

[Varese13]

@14c3pwnz (continued). He was told of the Schoenberg work by Stravinsky when Ravel visited him in Clarens. But one assumes that Ravel studied "Pierrot" as his Mallarmé songs were clearly influenced by it, as well as by the Stravinsky "Lyrics" (the first song of the Ravel piece is dedicated to Stravinsky).

[Varese13]

@14c3pwnz: Just checked it out: "Texturally, the Lyrics reveal another significant influence: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (1912). Stravinsky attended a performance of the revolutionary melodrama in Berlin in December 1912, and Schoenberg's band of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano was a likely inspiration for the instrumentation of the Lyrics––– As well, employ harsh sonorities and free chromaticism to a greater extent than in Stravinsky's previous works. You're right about Ravel.

[MichaelBakrnchev1989]

Magnificent performance. The second piece is incredibly difficult. This is a really lovely piece.

[Varese52]

Ravel and Stravinsky attended the premiere of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Upon their return from the performance, Ravel composed his Trois Poémes de Mallarmé and Stravinsky wrote this.

[minasgekos]

@Varese52 thank you nice piece of information

[f4c3pwnz]

@Varese52

As far as I'm aware, Ravel didn't attend; Stravinsky merely gave him an account of the performance he attended (which I seem to remember wasn't quite the premiere, but the fourth performance of the work).

Also, even though the ties between this work and Pierrot are obvious, Stravinsky had begun his work and actually completed the first piece before he heard Schönberg's masterpiece.

[ViewerNotes]

short, to the ponit, beautiful

[vth42]

Encanto ese música, gracias.