La Péri (Dukas)
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La Péri is a 1912 ballet in one act by French composer Paul Dukas, originally choreographed by Ivan Clustine and first performed in Paris, about Iskender searching for immortality and his encounter wi
Set by René Piot, 1921.
Sketches for Iskender and the Peri's costumes by Léon Bakst, 1922 and 1911.
Natacha Trouhanova and Alfred Bekefi, 1912.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a symphonic poem by the French composer Paul Dukas, completed in 1897. Subtitled "Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe", the piece is based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 179
La Péri (Dukas)
…Paul Dukas as a Poème dansé en un tableau ("dance poem in one scene"), his last published work. Although not as well known as his famous symphonic poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the ballet has been considered to be one of his most mature and skilled pieces. The music's style can best be described as a mixture of Romantic tonal…
Composer Paul Dukas