L'Histoire du soldat

"The Soldier's Tale" redirects here. For the unrelated 1988 movie, see A Soldier's Tale.

Histoire du soldat, or Tale of the Soldier (as it was first published), is an hour-long 1918 theatrical work to be "read, played and danced (lue, jouée et dansée)" by three actors, one or more dancers, and a septet of instruments. Its music is by Igor Stravinsky, its libretto, in French, by Swiss writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz; the two men conceived it together, their basis being the Russian tale The Runaway Soldier and the Devil in the collection of Alexander Afanasyev.

Ernest Ansermet conducted the premiere on 28 September 1918 in Lausanne with the support of Swiss philanthropist Werner Reinhart, to whom Stravinsky gifted the manuscript and issued the dedication.

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