The Rite of Spring future career in music: "I hope [Stravinsky] appreciated that hundreds—perhaps thousands—of musicians were turned onto "The Rite of Spring" ... through "Fantasia", musicians who might otherwise never have heard the work, or at least not until many years later". In later life Stravinsky claimed distaste for the adaptation, though as Ross remarks, he said nothing critical at the time; according to Ross, the composer Paul Hindemith observed that "Igor appears to love it". Before the first gramophone disc recordings of "The Rite" were issued in 1929, Stravinsky had helped to produce a pianola version of the work for the London
Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf The wolf agreed, the exchange was done, and Ivan returned to his own kingdom with Helen, the horse, and the Firebird. The wolf said its service was done when they returned to where it had eaten Ivan's horse. Ivan dismounted and lamented their parting. They went on for a time and slept. His older brothers found them, killed Ivan, sliced his body to pieces, and told Helen that they would kill her if she would not say that they had fairly won the horse, the firebird, and her. They brought them to their father, and the second son received half