Prometheus: The Poem of Fire

But after unrelieved dissonance throughout, the symphonic poem ends with a resplendent F-sharp major triad, the only conventionally consonant sonority in the entire composition.

On 21 March 1915 it was first performed with colored lighting, by the Russian Symphony Orchestra with Marguerite Volavy on piano, conducted by Modest Altschuler, at Carnegie Hall.

Sir Henry Wood had plans to conduct Prometheus with the part for clavier à lumières, but World War I prevented the performance.

The work was performed with colored lighting for the first time in England on 4 May 1972, by the London Symphony Orchestra under Elyakum Shapirra at the Royal Albert Hall.

[6] In 2023, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra commissioned a radical new light scenography to accompany the piece, made by Brussels artist Antoine Goldschmidt.