Igor Stravinsky - Four Russian Songs for voice and piano [with score]

Four Russian Songs - for voice and piano Written by Igor Stravinsky in 1918 Thanks to Thomas Van Dun for the preparation of this score video. ’Stravinsky composed his Four Russian Songs for voice and piano for Mme. Maja de Strozzi-Pecic, a Croat singer with a beautiful soprano voice whom Stravinsky met early in the winter of 1919. In his Chronicle of My Life, Stravinsky writes, “She asked me to write something for her, and I composed Four Russian Songs on folk poems which Ramuz [C.F. Ramuz, the librettist of L’histoire du soldat] translated for me.“ According to the manuscript, however, the first of the songs, “Canard“ (The Drake), was written in on December 28, 1918, while the second, “Chanson pour compter“ (Counting Song), and fourth, “Chant dissident“ (Song of the Sectarian), were composed in March 1919, and the third, “Le Moineau est assis“ (Dish-Divination Song), was composed on October 23,