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Auric, Georges : Petite Suite

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Music ID : 6824
Composition Year:1927 
Publication Year:1928
First Publisher:Heugel
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:pieces
Copyright:Under Copyright Protection

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Author : Hirano, Takatoshi

Last Updated: April 27, 2015
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Composed between the spring and autumn of 1927, it was premiered by the composer himself on March 5, 1928, at Salle Pleyel in Paris. In its character as a suite of old dances, it shares common ground with Poulenc's piano work Suite Française, written eight years later (though Suite Française was originally music for the second act of the play Margot, the first act of which was composed by Auric). André Schaeffner, a critic who heard the premiere, stated that this work could be described as the French version of Borodin's piano work Petite Suite. According to Auric, the second and third movements were composed based on 16th-century Polish lute pieces. The Prelude is gentle music, reminiscent of a curtain rising on a stage. Each subsequent movement, all characterized by simple harmonies and rhythms, faithfully captures the character of its respective dance.

Author : Hirano, Takatoshi

Last Updated: April 27, 2015
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Three years before Petite Suite was composed, Auric wrote the music for Les Fâcheux for the Ballets Russes, and continued to provide music for the Ballets Russes in the subsequent two years. The work for two pianos, Cinq Bagatelles (1925), composed around this period and later gaining popularity, is based on the incidental music Le Dompteur and La Femme silencieuse, written in the same year. By the time Petite Suite was composed, Auric had already established himself as a composer of ballet and incidental music. Although this work is an independent piano piece, the fact that archaic dances served as its source of inspiration is likely not unrelated to this creative environment.

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