The Five Easy Pieces were commissioned by French patroness Eugène Murat in November 1916. The original offer was to publish Stravinsky's Three Pieces for String Quartet, which he refused to do. However, he agreed to publish several short pieces, among them Renard, Berceuses du chat and the soon to be composed Five Easy Pieces under the Geneva-based company run by Adolphe Henn. Stravinsky composed each of the movements of the collection in only one day in his house in Morges.

Original Name Cinq pièces faciles
Date of composition 1917 in Morges, Switzerland
Premiered 1918, February 9th in Paris, France
First published 1918
Dedicated to Dedicated to Madame Eugenia Errazuriz "hommage très respectueux"
Approx. duration 7 minutes
Instruments Piano - Duet ;
Arrangements Igor Stravinsky: Suite No. 1 for chamber orchestra
Autotranslations beta Igor Stravinsky: Five Easy Pieces
Igor' Fëdorovič Stravinskij: Five Easy Pieces
Igor Strawinsky: Five Easy Pieces