Octet (Stravinsky)
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octet-stravinsky-172-2364923
title:
Octet (Stravinsky)
text:
The Octet for wind instruments is a chamber music composition by Igor Stravinsky, completed in 1923. Stravinsky’s Octet is scored for an unusual combination of woodwind and brass instruments: flute, clarinet in B♭ and A, two bassoons, trumpet in C, trumpet in A, tenor trombone, and bass trombone. Because of its dry wind sonorities, divertimento character, and open and self-conscious adoption of "classical" forms of the German tradition, as well as the fact that the composer published an article
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wiki
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1923 work for wind instruments
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(Stravinsky)
date created:
2011-02-23T05:24:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T17:11:31Z
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