Come for the Long-Lost Stravinsky, Stay for the Weird-Ass Ligeti
Hearing the lost music of Stravinsky will be like seeing a new play by Shakespeare.by Rich SmithThe classical music world went nuts when a Russian musicologist discovered Igor Stravinsky's long-lost Funeral Song, Op. 5, at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory during a move in 2015.Nobody had heard the music in more than one hundred years, and the piece, which is a 12-minute homage to his music teacher, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was performed only once before the score was misplaced in the library.Fa
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