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Statue of the Good King René in Aix-en-Provence
La cheminée du roi René (The Chimney of King René), Op. 205,[1] is a suite in seven movements for wind quintet, composed in 1939 by the French composer Darius Milhaud.
Genesis[edit]
Mills College, Oakland, where Milhaud taught and where the first performance of the suite was given by the Southern Quintet in 1941
Program Notes; Recordings. Peter and the Wolf has introduced generations of children to. The ballet costumes designed by Fernand L Darius Milhaud (French:. The following year, he completed his composition La cr. His autobiography is titled Notes sans musique. Darius La Cheminee du Roi Rene 1942. Darius Mariage de la feuile et du cliche. Among the program's rarities. Jacques Ibert: Cinq Pi. Darius Milhaud: La chemin. Repertoire 2010 - 2014. Program Notes for “Uncharted Territory” are after “Matchmaking. Darius Milhaud Biography. The Chimney Of King Rene (la Cheminee Du Roi Rene) '(La Cheminee Du Roi Rene). About CMS Winds+Piano. Mission & History.
- Cheminee du roi Rene' is one of Milhaud's most amiable and unpretentions creations, a series of atmospheric miniatures in which occasional modal touches discreetly suggest medieval times. In early 1939, Milhaud and two other com posers were asked to provide music for a three-part film by Raymond. Bernard, called 'Cavalcade d'Amour'.
- La Chemine du Roi Renefor woodwind quintetby Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)- French composer and teacher I. Aubade (Morning Serenade) III. Jongleurs (Jugglers) IV. La Maousinglade V. Joutes Dur L'Arc (Jousts on the Arc) VI. Chasse a Valabre (Hunting at Valabre) VII. Madrigal- Nocturne This is one of the corners.
The suite is an adaptation of the music that the composer wrote for Raymond Bernard's 1939 film Cavalcade d'amour. It was first performed in 1941 at Mills College in Oakland, California. The screenplay by Jean Anouilh and Jean Aurenche portrays three love stories set in three different centuries (medieval, 1830, 1930), with incidental music by the composers Darius Milhaud and Arthur Honegger, orchestrated by the conductor Roger Désormière. Milhaud chose the medieval court of René I in the fifteenth century.[2]
The castle and the court of René I, count of Provence, were situated in Aix-en-Provence, where Milhaud grew up and who was always fascinated by the history of the king, his code of chivalry and the legendary tournaments that took place at his court. Although the composer studied several musical manuscripts of the period, the writing of La cheminée du roi René shows very little evidence of this; the piece bears the characteristic hallmarks of the rest of Milhaud's music.
The title of the piece can be found in a nineteenth-century short story on 'le bon roi René' and courtly love, 'Le premier bouquet de fleurs d'oranger,' written by Louis Lurine for the literary journal L'Écho des feuilletons, published in 1853; the journal is a collection of anecdotes and legends, of which the provençal saying 'se chauffer à la cheminée du roi René' is one.[3]
Structure[edit]
The Livre de cœur d'amour épris of René I, illuminated manuscript by Barthélemy d'Eyck, c. 1460
The seven movements of the suite, written for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, have the following titles:
- Cortège (procession)
- Aubade (dawnsong)
- Jongleurs (jugglers)
- La maousinglade (sarabande)
- Joutes sur l'Arc (jousting on the River Arc)
- Chasse à Valabre (hunting at Valabre)[4]
- Madrigal nocturne (nocturnal madrigal)
All the movements are very short, with an alternation between 'nonchalant' and very rapid tempi: a collection of medieval miniatures. The shortest movement is less than a minute in length, while the longest is only three minutes long. This gives the impression of a single piece, in just one breath, even more so because the musical atmosphere changes so little between different movements. In all the suite lasts around thirteen minutes.
La maousinglade, a discrete sarabande with the theme taken up by the oboe, is particularly striking. The Joutes sur l'Arc is replete with renaissance ornamentation, while the hunting horn is evoked in the Chasse à Valabre. The final Madrigal, calm, restful and very neoclassical, brings the work to a melancholy close.
La cheminée du roi René is one of Darius Milhaud's best-known works and is one of the most popular pieces of chamber music in the twentieth-century repertoire for wind quintet. As the Belgian musicologist and biographer of Milhaud Paul Collaer notes, 'Among the wind quintets, the amusing La cheminée du roi René (1939) is especially worthy of note. Its folkish, Provençal character has made it almost as famous as Le boeuf sur le toit and La création du monde.' [5][6] The opening motif of Madrigal nocturne, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, is used as the signature melody by Sveriges Radio P2 and BBC Radio 3 in their six-hour Through the Night programme.[7]
Notes[edit]
- ^Milhaud, Darius (1941). La cheminée du roi René, Op. 205 (The Chimney of King René). Hal Leonard, Southern Music. ISBN9781581062885.
- ^Collaer 1988, p. 335
- ^Lurine, Louis (1853). 'Le premier bouquet de fleurs d'oranger'. L'Écho des feuilletons (in French). Paris. 13: 300–304.
- ^The hunting pavilion of Roy René is a sixteenth-century building in the Domaine de Valabre, Gardanne, a site dating back to the thirteenth century. The Seigneurie of Gardanne [1] was acquired in 1454 by René, who administered it until his death in 1480; apart from establishing the domain as an agricultural centre for viticulture, sheep-rearing and olive-growing, he used it as a base for hunting and fishing.
- ^'Official government classification of Milhaud's music'. Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 7 September 2020., Wayback Machine 2007
- ^Collaer 1988
- ^''La Cheminée du Roi René' (excerpt from Madrigal-Nocturne) - Darius Milhaud & BBC Concert Orchestra Song - BBC Music'. BBC. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
References[edit]
- Collaer, Paul (1988), Darius Milhaud, translated by Jane Highfeld Galante, The Macmillan Press, ISBN978-1-349-10653-0
- Milhaud, Darius (1953), Notes sans musique (in French), Julliard
- Milhaud, Darius (1967). Notes Without Music: An Autobiography. Translated by Donald Evans. London: Calder and Boyars. (French version published in 1953)
- Milhaud, Darius (1995), Ma Vie heureuse, Éditions Aug.Zurfluh, ISBN2-87750-083-7
- Milhaud, Darius (1995). My Happy Life. Translated by Donald Evans. M. Boyars. ISBN9780714529578.
- Greenfield, Edward; Layton, Robert; March, Ivan (1988), The New Penguin Stereo Record and Cassette Guide, Penguin Books
External links[edit]
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