Scherzo fantastique
1908 orchestral work by Igor Stravinsky / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about Stravinsky's early composition for orchestra. For Stravinsky's early composition for solo piano, see Scherzo (Stravinsky). For Stravinsky's composition for jazz band, see Scherzo à la russe (Stravinsky).
Scherzo fantastique, op. 3, composed in 1908, is the second purely orchestral work by Igor Stravinsky (preceded by the Symphony in E-flat op.1). Despite the composer's later description of the work as "a piece of 'pure', symphonic music",[1] the work was inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck's 1901 essay "La Vie des Abeilles" (The Life of Bees), as is made clear in a letter of 18 June 1907 from the composer to his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov.[2] Ten years later, Léo Staats adapted it as a ballet for the Opéra Garnier, with the title Les Abeilles, which was objected to by Maeterlinck.