Les Cinq Doigts
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Les cinq doigts is a 1921 piano composition by Igor Stravinsky
. Subtitled 8 mélodies très faciles sur 5 notes ("8 very easy melodies on 5 notes"), the work comprises eight short pieces in which the right hand generally plays only five notes, remaining in essentially the same position at the keyboard throughout the work. The movements of the work have these tempo markings:
Richard Taruskin has noted that the third section, the "Allegretto", is an arrangement of the Russian folk melody "Kamarinskaya
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Stravinsky made a recording of Les cinq doigts for the Brunswick label as part of his first recording contract, signed in 1925.
The Moderato is featured in the movie Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
. Subtitled 8 mélodies très faciles sur 5 notes ("8 very easy melodies on 5 notes"), the work comprises eight short pieces in which the right hand generally plays only five notes, remaining in essentially the same position at the keyboard throughout the work. The movements of the work have these tempo markings:
- Andantino
- Allegro
- Allegretto
- Larghetto
- Moderato
- Lento
- Vivo
- Pesante
Richard Taruskin has noted that the third section, the "Allegretto", is an arrangement of the Russian folk melody "Kamarinskaya
Kamarinskaya
Kamarinskaya is a Russian traditional folk dance, which is mostly known today as the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka's magnum opus....
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Stravinsky made a recording of Les cinq doigts for the Brunswick label as part of his first recording contract, signed in 1925.
The Moderato is featured in the movie Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky.