Canon
Where to start with Stravinsky
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
OrchestralEbony Concerto — For clarinet and jazz band
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ChamberOctet for Wind Instruments
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StagePetrushka — Ballet
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VocalSymphony of Psalms — For chorus and orchestra
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KeyboardTango
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OrchestralSymphony in Three Movements
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StageThe Firebird — Ballet
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StageThe Rite of Spring — Ballet
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StageAgon — Ballet
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OrchestralConcerto in E flat major, "Dumbarton Oaks" — For chamber orchestra
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OrchestralDanses concertantes
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StageL'Histoire du soldat — Theatre piece
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StageLes Noces — Ballet
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StagePulcinella — Ballet
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OrchestralSymphonies of Wind Instruments
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Stravinsky's catalogueMost Popular
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The Rite of Spring
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The Firebird Suite
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Petrushka
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Symphony of Psalms
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Pulcinella Suite
Most Acclaimed
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The Rite of Springthe most influential single piece of the 20th century
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Les Nocesvoices, four pianos, percussion — brutal and joyless
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L’Histoire du soldat7 instruments, narrator, dancer
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Symphony in Three Movements
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Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Most Weird
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Agonballet — his twelve-tone pivot, written over 10 years across style changes
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Requiem Canticleshis last major work — 16 minutes, epilogue to all of Western music
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Movements for Piano and Orchestratotally serial, glacially slow
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Threnitwelve-tone choral — massive forces, sounds nothing like his earlier work
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Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914)each player in a different tempo — predates almost everything
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 107
- Orchestral
- ● Ebony Concerto — For clarinet and jazz band
- ● Symphony in Three Movements
- Concerto in E flat major, "Dumbarton Oaks" — For chamber orchestra
- Danses concertantes
- Symphonies of Wind Instruments
- Violin Concerto
- 4 Orchestral Etudes
- Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
- Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
- Concerto in D major, "Basel" — For string orchestra
- Divertimento — Suite from the ballet The Fairy's Kiss
- Fireworks
- Funeral Song — Symphonic poem
- Greeting Prelude
- Le chant du rossignol — Symphonic poem
- Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum
- Movements for Piano and Orchestra
- Ode
- Praeludium — For jazz band
- Scherzo fantastique
- Scherzo à la russe
- Song of the Volga Boatmen
- Suite no. 1 — For chamber orchestra
- Suite no. 2 — For chamber orchestra
- Symphony in C major
- Symphony in E flat major, op. 1
- Tango — For chamber orchestra
- Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam
- Chamber
- ● Octet for Wind Instruments
- Three Pieces for Clarinet
- Concertino for 12 Instruments
- Concertino for String Quartet
- Divertimento — For violin and piano
- Double Canon, "Raoul Dufy in Memoriam" — For string quartet
- Duo concertante — For violin and piano
- Elegy — For solo viola
- Epitaphium — For flute, clarinet and harp
- Fanfare for a New Theater — For 2 trumpets
- Instrumental Miniatures — For 15 players
- Pastorale: Song Without Words — For violin and woodwind quartet
- Pour Pablo Picasso — For clarinet
- Ragtime — For 11 instruments
- Septet
- Suite italienne
- Three Pieces for String Quartet
- Stage
- ● Petrushka — Ballet
- ● The Firebird — Ballet
- ● The Rite of Spring — Ballet
- Agon — Ballet
- L'Histoire du soldat — Theatre piece
- Les Noces — Ballet
- Pulcinella — Ballet
- Apollo — Ballet
- Le Rossignol — Opera
- Mavra — Opera
- Oedipus Rex — Oratorio
- Orpheus — Ballet
- Perséphone — Theatre piece
- Renard — Opera
- Scènes de ballet — Ballet
- The Fairy’s Kiss — Ballet
- The Flood — Theatre piece
- The Rake's Progress — Opera
- Vocal
- ● Symphony of Psalms — For chorus and orchestra
- A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer — Cantata
- Abraham and Isaac — Cantata
- Ave Maria
- Babel — Cantata
- Berceuses du Chat
- Cantata
- Canticum Sacrum — Cantata
- Credo
- Elegy for J.F.K.
- Faun and Shepherdess — For voice and orchestra
- Four Russian Peasant Songs
- Four Russian Songs
- Four Songs — For voice, flute, harp and guitar
- In memoriam Dylan Thomas
- Mass
- Pater noster
- Pribaoutki
- Requiem canticles — For 2 vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra
- The Dove Descending Breaks the Air
- The King of the Stars — Cantata
- Three Japanese Lyrics
- Three Songs from William Shakespeare
- Three Songs: Recollections of my Childhood
- Threni
- Trois Petite Chansons
- Two Melodies, op. 6
- Two Poems by Paul Verlaine
- Two Poems of Balmont
- Keyboard
- ● Tango
- Circus Polka
- Concerto for 2 solo pianos
- Five Easy Pieces — For piano 4 hands
- Four Piano Etudes
- Les cinq doigts
- Piano Sonata
- Piano Sonata in F sharp minor
- Piano-Rag-Music
- Scherzo
- Serenade in A major
- Sonata for 2 Pianos
- Three Easy Pieces — For piano 4 hands
- Valse pour les enfants
- Étude — For pianola