Three Movements from Petrushka

Stravinsky's mentor Sergei Diaghilev had expected Stravinsky would follow the ballet The Firebird with another dance work, The Rite of Spring. The idea for such a work had occurred to Stravinsky while still working on The Firebird, but Stravinsky felt the need to write something unrelated to the theater and conceived an orchestral work in which the piano would have a prominent part: Stravinsky himself used the word Konzertstück for the composition.