L'Histoire du soldat
Theatrical composition by Igor Stravinsky / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"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,[1] 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.[2]