Scènes de ballet is a score of between 16 and 18 minutes' duration, written in 1944. It was commissioned by Billy Rose for a Broadway revue. The music occasioned one of the best-known Stravinsky anecdotes. Rose telegraphed Stravinsky: "YOUR MUSIC GREAT SUCCESS STOP COULD BE SENSATIONAL SUCCESS IF YOU WOULD AUTHORISE ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT RETOUCH ORCHESTRATION STOP BENNETT ORCHESTRATES EVEN THE WORKS OF COLE PORTER." To which Stravinsky telegraphed back: "SATISFIED WITH GREAT SUCCESS."
| Date of composition | 1944 |
| Premiered | 1944, December 7th (Ziegfeld Theater) in Broadway, NC, United States |
| Type | Suite |
| Approx. duration | 18 minutes |
| Instruments | Orchestra |
| Autotranslations beta |
Igor Stravinsky: Scènes de ballet Igor' Fëdorovič Stravinskij: Scènes de ballet Igor Strawinsky: Scènes de ballet |