Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius) 1909 Schoenberg continued pushing for more dissonant and chromatic harmonies in his Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16. From 1910–1913 Igor Stravinsky premiered his innovative and revolutionary ballets "The Firebird", "Petrushka" and "The Rite of Spring" ("Le Sacre du Printemps"). Ravel and Debussy were at work developing and performing their Impressionistic music. Though he had been in the public spotlight for nearly 30 years, Sibelius found his works receiving poor reviews for the first time with the 1911 premiere of his Fourth Symphony and, James Hepokoski writes, “was beginning to sense his own eclipse as a contending modernist.” These events
The Rite of Spring of the work would be called "The Kiss of the Earth", and would consist of games and ritual dances interrupted by a procession of sages, culminating in a frenzied dance as the people embraced the spring. Part Two, "The Sacrifice", would have a darker aspect; secret night games of maidens, leading to the choice of one for sacrifice and her eventual dance to the death before the sages. The original working title was changed to "Holy Spring" (Russian: " Vesna sviashchennaia"), but the work became generally known by the French translation "Le Sacre du printemps", or its English equivalent "The