EAN: 9790577081335

Bilder-Quelle: Notenbuch

This arrangement for violin and piano of the famous Méditation from Massenet's opera Thaïs from Edition Peters contains separate violin and piano parts and has been arranged and edited by Roger Nichols. One of the world's foremost authorities on the music of France Roger Nichols has published and broadcast extensively on the music of composers such as Ravel Satie Debussy Chabrier and Berlioz. In 2006 he was appointed chevalier de la Légion d'honneur for his services to French music. Thaïs Massenet's tenth completed opera had its première at the Paris Opéra on 16 March 1894 with the American soprano Sibyl Sanderson in the title role. The libretto by Louis Gallet was based on Anatole France's novel of the same name serialized in the Revue des deux mondes in 1889 and published in book form the following year. The story tells of the conversion to Christianity of the courtesan Thaïs by the holy man Athanael and his parallel but opposite conversion to a life dominated by lust for her. The Méditation for solo violin and orchestra joining the two scenes of Act II describes the beginning of Thaïs's conversion. The work was not received well initially by 1897 when Sanderson retired it had reached only its fourteenth performance. But the Méditation was an instant success with violinists and its religious association also encouraged church organists to play it at Mass during the Communion. Even Pope Pius X's motu proprio of 1903 specifically demanding that the music heard in church should not include reminiscences of those employed in the opera house could not prevail against it.

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