Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring): Miniature Score

by Igor Stravinsky (Composer)

Expertly arranged Full Orchestra Miniature Score by Igor Stravinsky from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the 20th Century era.

Genres: Music, Scores, Nonfiction

140 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century music.

He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the century. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1946. In addition to the recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a pianist and a conductor, often at the premieres of his works.

He also published a number of books throughout his career, almost always with the aid of a collaborator, sometimes uncredited. In his 1936 autobiography, Chronicles of My Life, written with the help of Walter Nouvel, Stravinsky included his infamous statement that "music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all."

Reviews

[Johannes]

Read while listening to Leonard Bernstein’s 1958 recording with New York Philharmonic.

[Raúl]

Una de las obras que me marcaron para siempre, y que me siguen atrayendo de una forma bestial (naturalmente).

[Neil]

My favorite symphonic work.