Which composition resulted in an audience riot during its premiere performance?

a. Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
b. Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire
c. Cage, 4’33”
d. Copland, Appalachian Spring
e. Debussy, Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun

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