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Which work, written by Igor Stravinsky, caused a near riot at its premier? Why did the crowd react so negatively?

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The ballet was first performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Theatre du Champs-Élysées in Paris on 29 May 1913 and famously caused a riot. The audience were so outraged by Stravinsky's avant-garde score, and Nijinsky's choreography, that many people thought it seemed like the work of a madman.
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