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Igor Stravisnky was put in touch with the Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz through the mediation of Ernest Ansermet. This meeting sparked a friendship between the composer and the writer. In 1918 they worked together on the "Histoire du soldat". This project was born out of economic necessity because Stravinsky no longer had access to his reserves due to the Russian revolution and the Swiss… Ramuz no longer received any proceeds from his work published in France as a result of the First World War. The idea was to write a work for a small number of instruments and two or three players, independent of a fixed concert hall or a large audience. A new performance of the "Histoire du soldat" has been released, conducted by violinist Shlomo Mintz. Calole Bouquet (as the narrator), Gérard Depardieu (as the devil) and Guillaume Depardieu (as the soldier) contributed to the performance. _more
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