La guirlande de Campra
La guirlande de Campra is collaborative orchestral work written by seven French composers in 1952. It is in the form of variations or meditations on a theme from André Campra's 1717 opera Camille, reine des Volsques.[1]
The numbers and their composers are:
- Toccata (Arthur Honegger*)[2]
- Sarabande et farandole ([ Daniel-Lesur]])[3][4]
- Canarie (Alexis Roland-Manuel)
- Sarabande (Germaine Tailleferre*)
- Matelote provençale (Francis Poulenc*)
- Variation (Henri Sauguet)
- Écossaise (Georges Auric*)[5]
- *Member of the group Les Six
The work was first performed on 30 July 1952[6] at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, by the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, under conductor Hans Rosbaud.[3]
Benjamin Britten attended the premiere, and it gave him the idea of commissioning several composers to contribute to a set of Variations on an Elizabethan Theme to celebrate the forthcoming coronation of Elizabeth II, for which he was also writing his opera Gloriana.[7][8]
Adaptations
In 1966, La guirlande de Campra was choreographed by John Taras and presented by New York City Ballet.
References
- ↑ faqs.org
- ↑ Music and history 1951–60
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Daniel-Lesur
- ↑ durand-salabert-eschig
- ↑ musicologie.org
- ↑ Some sources give the date as 31 July 1952.
- ↑ Britten-Pears Foundation
- ↑ Letters from a life: The selected letters of Benjamin Britten 1913–1976
