Pétrouchka

Pétrouchka was billed as a series of burlesque scenes in four tableaux with a score by Igor Stravinsky and an argument by Stravinsky and Alexandre Benois. It is probable that Serge Diaghilev also contributed in some measure to the scenario because he encouraged the composer to go on with his work, although he was waiting for the score of Le Sacre du printemps to be completed at the time of Stravinsky’s decision to start Pétrouchka in 1909 (see twentieth-century volume for La Sacre du…