Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks"
Concerto in E-flat, inscribed Dumbarton Oaks, 8.v.38 (1937–38) is a chamber concerto by Igor Stravinsky, named for the Dumbarton Oaks estate of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss in Washington, D.C., who commissioned it for their thirtieth wedding anniversary.The three movements, Tempo giusto, Allegretto, and Con moto, performed without a break, total roughly twelve minutes.The public premiere took place in Paris on June 4, 1938, at a concert of La Sérénade,[clarification needed] with Stravinsky conducting.[5] The full-score manuscript, formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, is in the Harvard University Rare Book Collection of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C.[1] Stravinsky himself created a reduction for two pianos.[1] Leif Thybo's 1952 transcription for organ laid the foundation for his investigation of the possibilities of the modern form of the instrument.