Stravinsky symphony no.1 in E - Finale

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Symphony no. 1 in E flat Major

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[jcliff26]

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was Stravinsky's teacher and original inspiration, and you can hear echoes of his teacher in Firebird and Petroushka. I was honored to have choreographed this for the original 1972 Stravinsky Festival by the New York City Ballet. Great score.

[Stravinsky91]

Wow really? That's amazing! :D

[RavenGirl84]

I'm normally not too fond of Stravinsky's styles *As I play a stringed instrument and it's REALLY hard to play his music lol* but you gotta admit, this one is pretty good. I prefer Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, and Shostakovitch, but this is nice. I will not deny his musical genius.

[DavidTeeee]

Stravinsky = Love. probably my absolute favorite composer EVER. With Mozart in a close second. Stravinsky's type of music is just REALLY my style. Just my opinion. The part beginning at 3:59 is my favorite. And you HAVE to LOVE the end. haha.

[MrQwertyhater]

Someone doesn't know good music. 

[hollermahler]

@iamalittlespy Thanks--Scherzo fantastique and Fireworks are some of my favorite pieces by Stravinsky!

[DavidTeeee]

@iamalittlespy well that was interesting. When i said "stravinsky = love" i was mostly referring to me loving his music, but I would agree that some of the most talened artists can be not so good of people. Insight appreciated. :P

[iamalittlespy]

@hollermahler Last suggestoins:

Piano Etudes Op.7 (1908) Interesting demanding piano music very much influenced by Scriabin, with Stravinsky's own rhythmic ingenuity.

Fireworks Op.4: Another early orchestral piece. Don't know much about it but I know it impressed Diaghilev enough to commission Stravinsky to write The Firebird, which really launched his international career.

[iamalittlespy]

@hollermahler Here is some suggested listening from early Stravinsky, in these pieces the composer is really starting to find his own voice, and move away from the generic late-romanticism of this symphony.

1) Pastorale (1907): Originally for voice and piano, but there is a great arrangement for voice and woodwind trio.

2) Scherzo fantastique, Op.3 (1908): A interesting orchestral piece, that hints on his music in Firebird, with a very Wagnerian section in the middle.

[iamalittlespy]

@hollermahler Its an early piece, when Stravinsky was still in his "Russian" period. For some reason Stravinsky's pre-Firebird (1910) music is rather ignored these days. This symphony and an early piano sonata are really not representative of his music as a whole, this might be one answer to your question.

[iamalittlespy]

@DavidTeeee (Part 3) Its just I feel compelled to tell the full story, when I feel a rather all too human and complicated person is being sold as a loving angel. I really like Stravinsky's music myself, however I don't this there is a correlation between artistic talent and moral purity, at least not in Stravinsky's case. One can be a great composer and not so good of a person, even though Stravinsky was by far not the worst.

[iamalittlespy]

@DavidTeeee However after Schoenberg died, he himself started writing in the 12 tone style and did so until the stopped composing in the 1960's. As for being equal to LOVE, Stravinsky displayed authoritarian, anti-democratic and anti-Semitic tendencies. And even wrote a letter to Nazi's with documentary proof that he is not a Jew, so they don't ban his music. Anyways, I hope you don't feel I am picking on you, I am really not. It.

[iamalittlespy]

@DavidTeeee (continued part 1) As for personality Stravinsky was a "complicated" person to say the least. He was a brilliant self-promoter often driven by envy and a music "thief" of the highest sort. By thief, I meant he brilliantly absorbed other composers styles, adding his own twist to it, then presenting it as his own brilliant work. Here is few examples, he downgraded and ridiculed Schoenberg in the 1920's for his 12-tone style of composition.

[iamalittlespy]

@DavidTeeee As great as Stravinsky is as a composer, I wouldn't exactly equate him to love. Mozart maybe, Stravinsky for from it. This is a very early piece, before Stravinsky found his voice. He never wrote in romantic style again. His music after this is largely non-sentimental. Yes he absorbed the Russian style of his teacher Rimsky-Kosakov among others, even though he later denied any "Russian" influence in his music.