Word: firebird
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...follows no such obvious trend. He wrote it when he was tired, perhaps incapable of cutting a trail any further into the forest of such untried dissonances and rhythms as he used in Le Sacre du Printemps. He had long dis carded the skirling imagery of Petrushka and The Firebird. When he wrote Oedipus he was deep in a desire to return to the classicists, anxious perhaps to begin all over again, to see where a new trail would take him. He chose an old, formal pattern fundamentally similar to the Handel oratorios...