Feu d'artifice

This article is about the orchestral composition by Igor Stravinsky. For the piano piece "Feux d'artifice" by Claude Debussy, see Préludes (Debussy).

Feu d'artifice

Feu d'artifice, Op. 4 (Fireworks, Russian: Фейерверк, Feyerverk) is an early composition by Igor Stravinsky, written in 1908. The work is an orchestral fantasy, and usually takes about five minutes to perform.

Composition

Stravinsky composed Feu d'artifice as a wedding present for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter Nadezhda and Maximilian Steinberg, who had married a few days before her father's death. Feu d'artifice helped develop Stravinsky's reputation as a composer, although it is not considered representative of his mature work. The work has some hints of bi-tonality but is for the most part similar in style to that of Rimsky-Korsakov who, at the time, was his teacher and mentor. It has the form of a scherzo but is still labeled "orchestral fantasy" because of its short length. Alexander Siloti conducted the premiere on 6 February 1909. Stravinsky got the commission from Serge Diaghilev to write The Firebird (1910) in part because Diaghilev heard this piece of music, and was impressed with its orchestration.

Orchestration

The work is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais), 3 clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 6 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, bass drum, triangle, glockenspiel, 2 harps, celesta, and strings.

Selected recorded versions

Notable recordings of the complete fantasy include:

Orchestra	Conductor	Record Company	Year of Recording	Format	Notes
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York	Igor Stravinsky	Columbia Masterworks MM 653	28 January 1946	78rpm, 4-disc set, 12-inch	With The Firebird Suite
London Symphony Orchestra	Antal Doráti	Mercury Records	1959	CD
Montreal Symphony Orchestra	Charles Dutoit	Decca Records	1984	CD
Concertgebouw Orchestra	Hans Werner Henze	n/a	1985	TV	^[1]
Chicago Symphony Orchestra	Seiji Ozawa	RCA	1993	CD
Chicago Symphony Orchestra	Pierre Boulez	Deutsche Grammophon	1994	CD
Vienna Philharmonic	Lorin Maazel	RCA	2000	CD

References

↑ Broadcast in 1985 by the Radio Nederland Transcription Service

External links

Feu d'artifice: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

Igor Stravinsky

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