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Chout
for the 1921 premiere at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique in Paris|400x400px Chout, Op. 21, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev. It was originally composed in 1915, then extensively revised at the request of Serge Diaghilev in 1921. The composer extracted an orchestral suite from it, Op. 21 bis. The ballet's full title is Tale of the Jester Who Outwits Seven Other Jesters ( ). The most commonly used title for the work is based on the French transliteration of the Russian word for "jester", shut.
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for the 1921 premiere at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique in Paris|400x400px Chout, Op. 21, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev. It was originally composed in 1915, then extensively revised at the request of Serge Diaghilev in 1921. The composer extracted an orchestral suite from it, Op. 21 bis. The ballet's full title is Tale of the Jester Who Outwits Seven Other Jesters ( ). The most commonly used title for the work is based on the French transliteration of the Russian word for "jester", shut.
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