e/Cantata (Stravinsky)

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has gloss	eng: The Cantata by Igor Stravinsky is a work for soprano, tenor, female choir, and instrumental ensemble (of flutes, oboe, cor anglais, and cello), and was composed from 1951 to 1952. The premiere performance on 11 November 1952 was by the Los Angeles (Chamber) Symphony Society (to whom the work is dedicated), conducted by Stravinsky himself. After writing the opera The Rakes Progress Stravinsky had been keen to compose another work to English verse, "but this time in a purer, non-dramatic form". Having collaborated with the poet Wystan Auden on the libretto of The Rakes Progress, Stravinsky decided to set the anonymous English texts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that Auden had just published. In the programme notes for the first performance, Stravinsky explained the reasons for this choice: "I selected four popular anonymous lyrics [...] which attracted me, not only for their great beauty and their compelling syllabification, but also for their construction which suggested musical...
lexicalization	eng: Cantata
instance of	(noun) composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971) Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, Igor Stravinsky

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has gloss	nld: Cantata is de naam van twee composities van Igor Stravinsky.
lexicalization	nld: Cantata