During his first year as music director of the Lübeck Opera, Christoph von Dohnányi directed its orchestra in several concerts, including this programme which ended with the Classical style at its most muscular and athletic, in Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony, and began with Stravinsky’s new-minted reinvention of that style with the instrumental suite from his ballet Pulcinella (1920). Neo-Baroque would be slightly more accurate a description of Stravinsky’s work, given that he arranges and parodies songs and dances by Pergolesi; the first true ‘neoclassical’ work had been composed by Erik Satie in 1917, the Sonatine bureaucratique which parodies a keyboard sonata by Muzio Clementi.