He had already had success with Petrouchka and The Firebird before his Rite of Spring burst upon a Paris audience in May 1913; there were disturbances in the audience at the raw and deliberately dissonant nature of this then-ultramodern music, which critics described as 'barbaric'. Somewhat alongside Holst's Planets suite, with which the work is more or less contemporary, this colourful work has become and remained one of the most performed and recorded orchestral classics of the 20th century, outside the symphonic repertoire as such.Who was the composer?

Quiz on composers and musicians whose names begin with the letter 'S'.