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Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée is a song cycle by Maurice Ravel based on the story of ''Don Quixote''. It was first composed for voice and orchestra but later arranged for voice and piano. The songs are traditionally performed by a baritone or bass(-baritone). The cycle is made up of three independent pieces: ''Chanson Romanesque, Chanson épique,'' and ''Chanson à boire.'' The text was written by the librettist Paul Morand. It was composed between the years of 1932 and 1933.
== About the songs ==
This was the last of Maurice Ravel's compositions, commissioned by the celebrated film director G. W. Pabst for a cinema version of ''Don Quixote'' starring the legendary bass Fyodor Chaliapin. The score was to include four songs (one more than the final version) along with background music for several episodes. As Ravel worked on the project in 1932, however, he suffered the increasingly disabling effects of Pick’s disease, a cerebral-neurological condition that gradually robbed him of motor skills and memory while afflicting him with periods of aphasia. Even though the composer used some material from pre-existing Spanish dances and songs, his progress was intermittent. How much Pabst knew about Ravel’s illness is unclear; but as 1932 wore on with no immediate prospect of receiving all the music, the director fired Ravel and hired Jacques Ibert for the job.〔Roger Nichols, ''Ravel'', New Haven, 2011, p. 330.〕 When the film, completed in 1933, reached theaters with Ibert's music, Ravel sued the producers, but never obtained a judgement.In the end, Ravel wrote only three songs, both in piano-accompanied and orchestrated versions. He completed them in 1933 thanks to extensive secretarial help provided by friends and assistants (his condition soon progressed so far that he could not write his name). The first public performance, given by baritone Martial Singher in December 1934 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, featured the orchestral version, with an ensemble conducted by Paul Paray.
For the lusty opening "Chanson Romanesque," Ravel chose the ''quajira'' dance-pattern, exploiting the quirks of its alternating 6/8 and 3/4 meters for word-painting, and enlivening it by sometimes garnishing the 3/4 with a clashing dissonance. Sensuality subtly increases with a turn to the major, and the final rhapsodizing on the beloved ("O Dulcinée") deepens the emotional perspective of all that has gone before. Parallel harmonies create the atmosphere of medieval Christian liturgy in the prayer of "Chanson épique." Here the oft-reiterated asymmetrical dance-rhythm of the ''zortzico'' imparts a sustained urgency unusual in slow music. Against the manic ''jota'' that dominates the "Chanson à boire," a tipsy Don Quixote revels in flamenco vocalizing and unleashes peals of laughter as keyboard flourishes suggest the bubbling and sparkling of wine.〔Alice Tully Hall Program Booklet, October 12, 2000〕
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