Ollantay: Tres movimientos sinfónicos, Op.
17, is an orchestral triptych by Alberto Ginastera written in 1947.
It was premiered on October 29, 1949 in Buenos Aires by the Regular Orchestra of the Teatro Colón conducted by Erich Kleiber.
[1] Inspired in the Quiché mythological corpus Popol Vuh like his later homonymous cantata, Ollantay depicts the confrontation of the sons of the Earth and the Sun, commanded by Ollantay and Inca respectively, which ends in the defeat of the earlier after a long siege.
[2] The work consists of three movements, to which Ginastera provided a short programme: Guy Rickards from Gramophone describes it as a darkly colourful and dramatic folk-triptych that could be thought of as an Argentinian Taras Bulba.