Firebird Igor Stravinsky Essay

The piece that I have chosen to write about is called Firebird written by: Igor Stravinsky in 1910. Stravinsky Grew up around music since he was a young boy, his father was Fyodor Stravinsky, who was the principle at Imperial Opera, St Petersburg, and his mother Anna was an amateur singer and piano player. Though Igor did not jump right into music he actually began to study law at St Petersburg University in the year 1901. He still kept his hands in music as he worked with a mentor. By the time of his mentor's death in 1908 Stravinsky had produced several works, among them a Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor (1903–04), a Symphony in E-flat major (1907), which he catalogued as "Opus 1", and in 1908 a short orchestral piece, Feu d'artifice which was performed at a concert in St Petersburg in 1901, Among those in the audience was the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who at that time was planning to introduce Russian music and art to western
While hunting in the forest, he strays into the magical realm of Koschei the Immortal, whose immortality is preserved by keeping his soul in a magic egg hidden in a casket. Ivan chases and captures the Firebird and is about to kill her; she begs for her life and he spares her.” I laughed as I read that because the first time I listened to this piece It reminded me of the hunt scene in Bambi, when the mother deer is running for her life because of a hunter, the music is dark and mysterious, but when Bambi is safe and finds a place to hide the music is still mysterious but lighter at the same time. This music also reminds me of Disney’s fantasia whenever a fight scene is going on because this piece sounds like a conversation or argument going back and forth. It also just sounds like it would be a great to put in a cartoon to portray so many things; a bad guy versus a good guy or even a chase scene in a cartoon with no words such as tom and