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Igor Stravinsky
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
(Original 1920 version)

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
En Shao, conductor

The Symphonies of Wind Instruments (French title: Symphonies d'instruments à vent) is a concert work written by Igor Stravinsky in 1920, for an ensemble of woodwind and brass instruments. The piece is in one movement, lasting about 9 minutes. It is dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy, who died in 1918, and was premiered in London on June 10, 1921, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. [...] In the title of this piece, Stravinsky used the word \"symphonies\" (note the plural form) not to label the work as an essay in the symphonic form, but rather in the word's older, broader connotation, from the Greek, of \"sounding together\"). The music of the Symphonies draws on Russian folk elements, and is constructed of \"contrasting episodes at three different yet related tempos\". The chorale which concludes the piece was originally published in the magazine La Revue musicale in an edition entitled Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy, which included short pieces from several composers, including Maurice Ravel and Manuel de Falla, dedicated to Debussy's memory. It appeared as a piano score in the Tombeau.