Details
- Instrument:
- Piano Accompaniment Violin Solo
- Genres:
- Classical Period Romantic Period Wedding
- Composers:
- Jules Massenet
- Publishers:
- Edition Peters
- UPC:
- 9790577081335
- ISBN:
- 9790577081335
- Format:
- Set of Parts
- Item types:
- Physical
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Artist:
- Jules Massenet
- Arrangers:
- Nichols
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Main Key:
- D Major
- Size:
- 9x12 inches
- Number of Pages:
- 12
- Shipping Weight:
- 0.26 pounds
SKU: PE.EP7510
Composed by Jules Massenet. Edited by Roger Nichols. Arranged by Nichols. Violin Book. Edition Peters. Classical Period. Set of performance parts. With solo part, piano reduction and introductory text. 12 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP7510. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP7510).ISBN 9790577081335. UPC: 9790577081335. 9x12 inches. Key: D major. English.
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.
- More by this Composer:
- Jules Massenet Jules Massenet Piano Jules Massenet Piano Accompaniment Jules Massenet Voice Solo
- Instrument:
- Piano and Keyboard Piano Accompaniment Strings Violin Violin Solo
- Artists:
- Jules Massenet Roger Nichols Nichols
- Publisher:
- Edition Peters
Ratings + Reviews
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Vivian C.
May 25, 2024
Attractive layout of the music on good quality paper. Standard arrangement of a beutiful peace if music. It arranved in a timely manner. Thank you.