Learn the story behind Stravinsky's Firebird in this beautiful clip with animation. Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. He became internationally famous when his ballet ...

What, for example, would Stravinsky have been without Diaghilev? When Diaghilev was looking for a composer for his first newly-commissioned ballet, The Firebird, Stravinsky was little more than a ...

Indeed the Introduction to Part 2 has more of a kinship to The Firebird than I’ve ever been conscious of ... s ‘Infernal Dance’ is quite as orgiastic (or as menacing) as Stravinsky might have intended ...