Suite from the incidental music to Maurice Maeterlinck’s “Pelléas et Mélisande”, Op. 80

Fauré wrote the incidental music for the 1898 London production, with orchestration by Charles Koechlin. He later reworked several numbers into a concert suite, which has four movements in its...Read more

Fauré wrote the incidental music for the 1898 London production, with orchestration by Charles Koechlin. He later reworked several numbers into a concert suite, which has four movements in its final form.

1. Prelude
2. Fileuse
3. Sicilienne
4. La Mort de Melisande

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