Excerptof Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, Javanese version. (Petite Suite) (2011) from russian tango live Watch Video
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Description: L'Histoire du Soldat is a musical gem of early modern, 20th century classical music.nnWritten by Stravinsky for a group of poor, unemployed artists and musicians during the crisis just after the first world war. In its form as a travelling musical theatre production it is the first of its kind. Stravinsky based his composition on an old Russian fairy tale of a soldier selling his violin (soul) to the devil. nnWith this interdisciplinary work Stravinsky has been influenced for the first time by c