Serenade in A is a work for solo piano by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
Completed on September 9, 1925, in Vienna[1] and published by Boosey & Hawkes,[2] it resulted from his signing his first gramophone recording contract, for Brunswick, and was written so that each movement could fit on one side of a 78 rpm record.
[2] Serenade in A lasts about twelve minutes and is in four movements: Despite its title, the work is in neither A major nor A minor.
According to Eric White, A is not the "key" of the work, but rather the music radiates from and tends towards A as a "tonic pole".
[5] Therefore, the movement titles are meant to evoke the specific parts of such festive celebration.