Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...of March 31, 1883, according to a note in the score (on March 30, 1884, according to other sources of information). Ernest Chausson. Born. 1855, at Paris. Died.1 une 10,1898, at Limay. On the fly-leaf of the score is printed the following "Legende":--Viviane and Merlin in the forest of Broceliande--Love scene. Trumpet calls--The messengers of King Arthur traversing the forest in search of the enchanter. Merlin remembers his errand; He would take flight and escape from the embraces of Viviane. Scene of the bewitchment--To detain him, Viviane puts Merlin to sleep and binds him with blooming white thorns. The meaning of Chausson's music (which is entirely free in point of both form and treatment) is to be gathered of course from the foregoing "program", and although the composer lias not indicated the changes of "scene" in his score the listener will have no difficulty in following them readily in the picturesque contrasts which come to notice as the movement progresses. The source of the composition is the same, obviously, as that which inspired Tennyson's "Merlin and Vivien" in his "Idylls of the King"--although it has been pointed out that the British poet's conception (founded on Sir Thomas Malory's) of the heroine differs materially, and to her disadvantage, from the Viviane described in the old French traditions. Concerto for Oboe, Clemence de GrandvaL Born Jan. 20,1830. a de la Cour du Died Jan. 15, lflOT, at Paris.,Ue 7 Born Jan. 20, 1X30, at the Chateau de la Cour du Bois (France), Marie Felicie Clemence de Reiset, Vicomtesse de Gvandval, received her training in composition from von Flotow (the author of "Martha") and Saint-SaPns, making her own debut as a musicwriter with a mass and a "...
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
