The is the last section (51 bars) of Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920) in an arrangement for solo piano. The Chorale was published as Tombeau de Claude Debussy—Fragment des Symphonies pour instruments a vent à la memorire de Claude Achille Debussy (Fragment of the Symphonies of Wind Instruments in memory of Claude Achille Debussy) in a music supplement of La Revue Musicale published in Paris in December 1920.

A very slow and austere processional, sounding like an abstract but no less deeply felt Russian Orthodox funeral chant, the Chorale is utterly unlike any other that Stravinsky wrote for solo piano. Only the piano reduction made for rehearsal purposes of the closing section of the Symphony of Psalms is even remotely like the Chorale. Even the opening Hymne from the Serenade in A for solo piano is a much more expansive and virtuosic work compared with the Chorale.

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