Le chant du rossignol, commonly referred to as The Song of the Nightingale, is a symphonic poem written by Igor Stravinsky in 1917. The score is adapted from his earlier work, Le rossignol (The Nightingale), an opera from 1914. The opera, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Nightingale, is set in three acts, told from the point of view of a Chinese fisherman. In the orchestral version, Stravinsky mostly uses music from acts two and three.
| Original Name | Le chant du rossignol |
| Librettist | (Based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Nightingale") |
| Date of composition | 1917 |
| Premiered | 1919, December 6th in Geneva, Switzerland |
| First published | 1921 |
| Type | Symphonic Poem |
| Approx. duration | 20 minutes |
| Arrangement of | Igor Stravinsky: The Nightingale |
| Instruments | Orchestra |
| Autotranslations beta |
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