Concerto in D (Stravinsky)

Template:Short description Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in D ("Basle") for string orchestra was composed in Hollywood between the beginning of 1946 and 8 August of the same year in response to a 1946 commission from Paul Sacher to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Template:Ill (BKO—in English, Basel Chamber Orchestra), and for this reason is sometimes referred to as the "Basle" Concerto.

It was premiered on 27 January 1947 in Basel by the BKO, conducted by Paul Sacher.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Other sources say it was six days earlier, on the day of the orchestra's 20th anniversary, 21 January,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn when two other works commissioned by Sacher were also premiered: Arthur Honegger's Symphony No. 4 Deliciae Basiliensis and Bohuslav Martinů's Toccata e due Canzoni.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

The Concerto in D was the first composition Stravinsky created after becoming a naturalised American citizen on 28 December 1945 and the first of his works to be published under the contract with his new publisher, Boosey & Hawkes.Template:Sfn

The concerto has been choreographed several times as a ballet, first by Dore Hoyer at the Hamburg State Opera in 1950. Later ballet versions were made by Jerome Robbins, under the title of The Cage in 1951, by Werner Ulbrich, as Attis und die Nymphe at the Württembergisches Staatstheater, Stuttgart, in 1959Template:Sfn and by Template:Ill at the Royal Ballet of Flanders, as Acht in 1973.Template:Sfn

Movements

The concerto has three movements:

References

Sources

• Anon. 2012. "Cardiff Celebrates Paul Sacher's Extraordinary Commissioning Legacy" Seen and Heard International (20 March, retrieved 18 March 2014).
• Barbier, Rina. 1983. Het Koninklijk Ballet van Vlaanderen. Antwerp: N.V. Scriptoria. Template:ISBN.
• Ford, Andrew. 2002. "Back to the Future". ABC Radio 24 Hours (February): 98.
• Gritten, Anthony. 2003. "Chronology of Stravinsky's Life and Career". In The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky, edited by Jonathan Cross, ix–xiv. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Template:ISBN (cloth); Template:ISBN.
• Halbreich, Harry. 1999. Arthur Honegger, translated by Roger Nichols, edited by Reinhard G. Pauly. Amadeus Series. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. Template:ISBN.
• Stephenson, Lesley, and Don Weed. 2002. Symphony of Dreams: The Conductor and Patron Paul Sacher. Zürich: Rüffer and Rub. Template:ISBN. Reprinted in the series Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. Template:ISBN.
• Walsh, Stephen. 2001. "Stravinsky, Igor (Fyodorovich)". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
• White, Eric Walter. 1979. Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works, 2nd edition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Template:ISBN.

External links

• Concerto in D major, K075 (Stravinsky): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• James Leonard. Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D, for string orchestra ("Basel Concerto") at AllMusic
• Template:Trim Template:Replace on YouTube, SCM Chamber Orchestra, September 2015, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music