Price: $1200.00

NEAR MINT CONDITION

Autographed 6 bar double staved musical quotation of the 3rd Act Prelude from his opera, Ariane et Barbe Bleue, Paris, February, 1926. 

Ariane et Barbe Bleue premiered at the 10th of May, 1907 at the Opera Comique.  The opera was taken from the play by Maurice Maeterlinck.  It revolves around the Blue Bear fairy tale, but in this case ends happily.  The score is lush and contains hints of Debussy and Wagner, with an accent of Russian flavor which was the operatic rage in Paris of the time.  Maeterlinck originally offered the score to Edvard Grieg.   When Grieg turned it down, an offer was made to Dukas who readily accepted.  The opera was well received and made it’s tour of the major opera Houses of Europe and North and South America.  In the last few years it has been performed in a number of European houses.

While the Sorcerer’s Apprentice remains Dukas’ best known work,  Ariane et Barbe Bleue is probably his second best known work due to the Toscanini broadcast of the suite from the opera.

PAUL DUKAS - COMPOSER

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