Igor Stravinsky - Scherzo Fantastique (1908) [with score]

Scherzo Fantastique - for orchestra
Written by Igor Stravinsky

Thanks to Thomas Van Dun for the preparation of this score video. https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasvanDun/

Performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Boulez

"It is one of those unfortunate circumstances of musical commercialism that, in order to help sell Igor Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique for orchestra, Op. 3, his publisher prefaced the work with a programmatic description that, to this day, is widely considered to have actually been Stravinsky's inspiration to compose the piece. In reality, the Scherzo fantastique is a 12- to 15-minute work of pure music that Stravinsky composed between June 1907 and March 1908 during the final days of his apprenticeship to Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. The work occupies an important place in the composer's output for a couple of reasons. It is, to be fair, probably his earliest composition to really bear the unmistakable mark of a consummate craftsman. Perhaps more significantly, it was at a 1909 performance of the work that young Stravinsky first came to the attention of impresario Sergei Diaghilev, the man whose Ballet Russe carried the three theater works that thrust Stravinsky into the musical limelight (The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring) on its shoulders. It is worth noting that Stravinsky, who in later life came to disdain most everything he did before The Firebird, was never ashamed of the Scherzo fantastique." - Blair Johnston

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