- Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) - Wikipedia
The Afternoon of a Faun (French: L'Après-midi d'un faune) is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912 Nijinsky danced the main part himself The ballet is set to Claude Debussy 's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun - Encyclopedia Britannica
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, tone poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy The original orchestral version was completed in 1894, and Debussy reworked it for performance on two pianos in 1895
- THE STORY BEHIND: Debussys Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun - RI PHIL
Between 1892 and 1894, contemporaneously with his evolution of the Quartet, Debussy composed L’Après-midi d’une faune, a masterpiece so personal, so free of the ordinary indices of derivation, so distinctive in feeling and coloring, so unlike any music of the past or of its own era
- DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun - YouTube
From the DSO's 2018 French Festival, here is Debussy's landmark modernist work
- Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun - BSO
The occasion was Debussy’s first great triumph, and the Faun remains, along with La Mer (1903-05), one of the composer’s best-known and most popular works for orchestra
- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun | Music 101 - Lumen Learning
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (L 86), known in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration It was first performed in Paris on December 22, 1894, conducted by Gustave Doret
- The Afternoon of a Faun: Analysis of Major Characters | EBSCO
"The Afternoon of a Faun: Analysis of Major Characters" explores the complex figures within the poem, particularly focusing on the Faun and the nymphs, who represent contrasting aspects of desire and beauty
- Nijinsky and the Ballet Russes’ 1912 ‘Afternoon of the Faun’
In 1912, the Ballet Russes debuted the approximately 12-minute long short ballet entitled L’apres midi d’une Faune, or in English, Afternoon of a Faun The work can be considered a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, in several respects, not least of which are the multiple and interdisciplinary contributors to the creation of the ballet
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