Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Work by Igor Stravinsky, dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy; it was composed in 1920, revised 1945–47, and first performed in London on 10 June 1921 (conducted by Koussevitzky).

The unusual use of the plural in the title (symphonies instead of symphony) was explained by Stravinsky as being in its original sense of ‘sounding together’: much of the interest in the work lies in the different textures generated by varying combinations of instruments.