Steinberg received the finished composition by the end of June 1908 and expressed his initial enthusiasm in a July 1 letter to his friend Mikhail Gnesin, who would later become a famous teacher in his own right: “I like it very much the music is typical of Igor….
Stravinsky wrote Fireworks as a wedding present for Nadezhda Rimsky-Korsakov, daughter of composer and pedagogue Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky’s most important teacher, and another Rimsky pupil, Maximilian Steinberg. Second, Fireworks got the attention of a figure who would play a key role in Stravinsky’s career, the impresario Serge Diaghilev. First, most commentators consider it his first fully characteristic piece, the work in which the young composer’s own voice emerged for the first time, unencumbered by echoes of his forebears. Stravinsky’s Fireworks – in spite of its brevity – occupies an important place in his output for two reasons. Orchestration: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes (2nd = English horn), 3 clarinets (3rd = bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 6 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, triangle), 2 harps, celesta, and stringsįirst Los Angeles Philharmonic performance: July 21, 1925, Fritz Reiner conducting
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