From the time of the French composer Adolphe Adam's score for Giselle (1841), ballet composers made rudimentary attempts to express mood and scene, to create dramatic tension, and to characterize personality in music.
If he did imitate the great Russian ballet composers in any way, it was in his pacing.
For his part, Tchaikovsky understood he had to compromise to make his music as practical as possible for the dancers and otherwise had more creative freedom than ballet composers were usually accorded.
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Like "Parade," "Stravinsky" opens with a ballet: the composer's landmark "Sacre du Printemps," evoking prehistoric fertility rites and building to a climax in human sacrifice.
Rosie Langabeer, the ballet's composer, says she had played with Feather before and knew his instruments could evoke the sound of an old-fashioned airplane for the ballet, which told the story of a doomed 1930s mail plane.
After his graduation, he lived a quite liberal lifestyle, attending many plays and the ballets of composers Ole Bull and Franz Liszt, and renting an expensive apartment, the Prianishnikov House, for 1,200 rubles, even though he was only earning 5,000 rubles per year.
