Short pieces associated with "fire"

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[liszt1022]

Take out some repeating and it's under 3 minutes... but why so short? 4 minutes is just fine.
This is de Falla's Ritual Fire Dance.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Again, about four minutes, and perhaps the arranger (Brassin) is too obscure? Wagner Magic Fire Music, played by Josef Hofmann (one of my absolute favourite piano recordings):

[ahinton]

Let's try France first; there's the outer two numbers from Messiaen's Quatre études en rythme - Île de Feu I & Île de Feu II and, from just over a century earlier, l'Incendie au village voisin, no. 7 from Alkan's Douze études dans tous les tons majeurs, Op. 35 - oh, and of course Feux d'artifice, the last piece from Book 2 of Debussy's 24 Préludes. Next, to Scriabin's Russia with Vers la flamme, Op. 72 and Flammes Sombres, the second of Deux danses, Op. 73; I seem also to recall that someone made a piano transcription of Stravinsky's early orchestral work of the same title as the Debussy above but can't now find the information about that.

Best,

Alistair

[pjaul]

This piece is closer to 5-6 minutes, but Vers la Flamme (Scriabin) definitely meets your other requirements.  One of my favorite pieces.

[visitor]

short
well known (tons of videos on yt)
nicknamed "Scorpion Fire"
drama
virtuosic
post 1850

[pianist1976]

I'm looking for a a short "fiery piece", as in, associated with fire.

Preferably:
- Less than 3 minutes long
- Programmatic and/or dramatic
- By a more "well known" composer
- Written post-1850
- Virtuosic

Thanks

Liszt's Feux Follets meets almost all your requirements...

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[nanabush]

I'd say the Prokofiev Toccata - it really sounds like a little flame that just gets completely out of hand... it gets extinguished, but starts spreading all over again.  I always picture this little flame slowly engulfing something huge when I hear this piece.

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