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Delaware County Symphony
Sebastian Grand, Music Director
Visual Program Notes - October 18, 2026
Musique Française
Gabriel Fauré- Pelléas et Mélisande
Gabriel Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He is well known for the song Clair de lune, and composed the suite, Pelléas et Mélisande in 1898 for Maurice Maeterlinck's play of the same name.
Fauré at about the time of his Pelléas et Mélisande music
Sarah Bernhardt in the original play, Pelléas et Mélisande
Maurice Ravel- Piano Concerto in G Major
Joseph Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. The Piano Concerto in G major was composed between 1929 and 1931and was influenced by jazz, and Basque folk music.
Ravel in 1925
Poster for the 1932 premiere of the Piano Concerto
Georges Bizet- L’Arlésienne Suite 1 & 2
Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. He is best-known for his opera, Carmen. L'Arlésienne (The woman from Arles) is incidental music composed for Alphonse Daudet's drama of the same name. It was first performed on 30 September 1872 at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris.
Bizet photographed by Étienne Carjat (1875)
The Théâtre du Vaudeville on the Boulevard des Capucines, ca. 1870, photo by Charles Marville
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