Tags: Classical Music Composition.
The Incredible Flutist is a ballet composed by Walter Piston in 1938 his only composition for the stage. The ballet received its premiere by the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler on May 30 of that year. The text of the ballet was written by Piston and Wiener. It describes a marketplace teeming with activity and enlivened by a circus. A flutist acts as a snake charmer and also charms women.