Stravinsky\'s score for the ballet ``Petrushka, `` commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, was first performed in Paris in 1911 and was an immediate sensation with the public and the critics.
The ballet had begun in Stravinsky\'s mind as a ``picture of a puppet sud.
It followed by a year the great success of his score for ``The Firebird, `` also produced by the Ballets Russes, and it confirmed Stravinsky\'s reputation as the most gifted of the younger generation of Russian composers.
Stravinsky\'s score for the ballet ``Petrushka, `` commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, was first performed in Paris in 1911 and was an immediate sensation with the public and the critics