Maeterlinck in Music
Pelléas and Mélisande inspired four major musical compositions at the turn of the 20th century:
- 1898: an orchestral suite (sometimes described as incidental music) by Gabriel Fauré (Op. 80)
- 1893-1902: an opera by Claude Debussy (L. 88, Paris), see Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
- 1902-1903: a symphonic poem by Arnold Schoenberg (Op. 5)
- 1905: incidental music by Jean Sibelius (Op. 46), see Pelléas et Mélisande (Sibelius)
Other musical works based on Maeterlinck's plays include:
- Aglavaine and Sélysette
- orchestral prelude by Arthur Honegger
- Aladina and Palomid
- opera by Burghauser
- opera by Osvald Chlubna
- opera by Emil František Burian
- Ariane et Barbe-bleue
- opera in 3 acts by Paul Dukas
- incidental music by Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov
- The Betrothal
- incidental music by Armstrong Gibbs
- The Blind
- opera by Beat Furrer
- opera Slepcy by Polish composer Jan Astriab after Maeterlinck's Les aveugles
- The Death of Tintagiles
- symphonic poem by Charles Martin Loeffler
- incidental music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
- opera by Lawrance Collingwood
- overture by Carse
- opera by Nougues
- symphonioc poem by Santoliquido
- orchestral prelude by Voormolen
- Monna Vanna
- opera in 3 acts by Emil Ábrányi
- Monna Vanna, opera in 4 acts by Henry Février
- Monna Vanna, unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff
- opera in 4 acts by Nicolae Brânzeu
- L'oiseau bleu
- opera by Albert Wolff
- 13 scenes for orchestra by Fritz Hart
- incidental music by Leslie Heward
- incidental music by Engelbert Humperdinck
- overture by Kricka
- incidental music by Norman O'Neill
- incidental music by Szeligowski
- Princess Maleine
- overture by Pierre de Bréville
- overture by Cyril Scott
- unfinished opera (or incidental music) by Lili Boulanger
- incidental music by Maximilian Steinberg
- The Seven Princesses
- incidental music by Bréville
- opera by Nechayev
- Soeur Beatrice
- opera by Alexander Grechaninov
- chorus by Anatoly Liadov
- opera Sor Beatriz by Marquez Puig
- opera by Dmitri Mitropoulos
- opera by Rasse
- Intérieur
- opera by Giedrius Kuprevičius
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