Stravinsky composed the Movements on commission by a Swiss industrialist for his pianist wife Margrit Weber, for the sum of $15,000. Mrs. Weber premiered the work at a Stravinsky Festival in New York’s Town Hall on January 10, 1960 with the composer himself conducting. Herr Weber had asked for a work of between 15 and 20 minutes but instead Stravinsky fulfilled the commission with a more refined and compressed piece lasting around half the length of the commission.

Date of composition 1959 (1958-1959)
Premiered 1960, January 10th (New York’s Town Hall) in New York, NY, United States by Igor Stravinsky
Dedicated to Dedicated to the pianist Margrit Weber
Type Concerto
Approx. duration 10 minutes
Instruments Piano
Chamber orchestra
Autotranslations beta Igor Stravinsky: Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Igor' Fëdorovič Stravinskij: Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Igor Strawinsky: Movements for Piano and Orchestra