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
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