The ballet Pulcinella was first staged in Paris in 1920. Sergey Dyagilev had gathered around him some of the greatest artistic talents of the age: choreographer and dancer Léonide Massine, Pablo Picasso, who provided the astonishing designs, and Stravinsky. For the story of a travelling Italian theatre company, Stravinsky took music derived from Pergolesi and his contemporaries, and fashioned it into new and rich life, magical and piquant. The Scherzo fantastique, Op 3 is a lavish and brilliantly scored orchestral showpiece.