Roussel, Albert. (1869 - 1937). Autograph Musical Quotation, "Le festin de l'araignée.". A superb AMQS from the important French composer who was the teacher of Satie, Golestan, Roland-Manuel and Varese! A three-measure quotation, penned in 1925 on an album page measuring 10.5 x 10.5 cm. Mounted to another page, in very fine condition. Very scarce.
"Though he was touched by the successive waves of impressionism and neo-classicism in French music, he was an independent figure, his music harmonically spiced and rhythmically vigorous....Following the resounding success of Evocations, Jacques Rouché, then director of the Théâtre des Arts, asked Roussel to write the ballet score Le festin de l'araignée (1913)....[which] marks the conclusion of Roussel's first period. This first ballet score has a seductive lightness, spontaneity, irony and refinement of style and orchestration. It is realistic rather than impressionistic, depicting the ferocity of the insect world meticulously but not excessively so, and it exhibits characteristically Rousselian rhythmic motives." (Nicole Labelle, Grove Online)
"Though he was touched by the successive waves of impressionism and neo-classicism in French music, he was an independent figure, his music harmonically spiced and rhythmically vigorous....Following the resounding success of Evocations, Jacques Rouché, then director of the Théâtre des Arts, asked Roussel to write the ballet score Le festin de l'araignée (1913)....[which] marks the conclusion of Roussel's first period. This first ballet score has a seductive lightness, spontaneity, irony and refinement of style and orchestration. It is realistic rather than impressionistic, depicting the ferocity of the insect world meticulously but not excessively so, and it exhibits characteristically Rousselian rhythmic motives." (Nicole Labelle, Grove Online)
Roussel, Albert. (1869 - 1937). Autograph Musical Quotation, "Le festin de l'araignée.". A superb AMQS from the important French composer who was the teacher of Satie, Golestan, Roland-Manuel and Varese! A three-measure quotation, penned in 1925 on an album page measuring 10.5 x 10.5 cm. Mounted to another page, in very fine condition. Very scarce.
"Though he was touched by the successive waves of impressionism and neo-classicism in French music, he was an independent figure, his music harmonically spiced and rhythmically vigorous....Following the resounding success of Evocations, Jacques Rouché, then director of the Théâtre des Arts, asked Roussel to write the ballet score Le festin de l'araignée (1913)....[which] marks the conclusion of Roussel's first period. This first ballet score has a seductive lightness, spontaneity, irony and refinement of style and orchestration. It is realistic rather than impressionistic, depicting the ferocity of the insect world meticulously but not excessively so, and it exhibits characteristically Rousselian rhythmic motives." (Nicole Labelle, Grove Online)
"Though he was touched by the successive waves of impressionism and neo-classicism in French music, he was an independent figure, his music harmonically spiced and rhythmically vigorous....Following the resounding success of Evocations, Jacques Rouché, then director of the Théâtre des Arts, asked Roussel to write the ballet score Le festin de l'araignée (1913)....[which] marks the conclusion of Roussel's first period. This first ballet score has a seductive lightness, spontaneity, irony and refinement of style and orchestration. It is realistic rather than impressionistic, depicting the ferocity of the insect world meticulously but not excessively so, and it exhibits characteristically Rousselian rhythmic motives." (Nicole Labelle, Grove Online)