This composer originally scored one of his ballets for pianola, harmonium, and two cimbaloms, but later pared its instruments down to percussion and four pianos.
This composer originally scored one of his ballets for pianola, harmonium, and two cimbaloms, but later pared its instruments down to percussion and four pianos. This composer adapted the music from one of his ballets into several works called Suite Italienne. He composed a ballet in which Furbo disguises himself as the title character to persuade Tartaglia and the Doctor to accept their future sons-in-laws, as well as a four-movement tableau depicting the preparations for a peasant wedding. This composer wrote a ballet based on the music of Giovanni Pergolesi that ends with the title character marrying Pimpinella. In another of his ballets, a prince watches thirteen princesses perform a round dance after entering an enchanted garden and receiving a magical feather. This composer of Les noces began his neo-classical period with his ballet Pulcinella. For 10 points, name this Russian composer who depicted Prince Ivan's victory over Koschei the Deathless in his ballet The Firebird.
This composer originally scored one of his ballets for pianola, harmonium, and two cimbaloms, but later pared its instruments down to percussion and four pianos.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky