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La Damoiselle élue

The Blessed Damozel by Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel by Rossetti
  • ... that the cantata La Damoiselle élue, Debussy's first orchestral music performed in public, was inspired by a poem by Rosetti who also made a painting of the subject (pictured)? Source: [1] "Through his involvement with the literary Symbolists, Debussy discovered a then recently published anthology of English poetry translated by Gabriel Sarrazin, Poètes modernes d’Angleterre (1883), which included illustrations by Pre-Raphaelite artists as well as Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem The Blessèd Damozel (1850). It was on this French prose translation of Rossetti that Debussy based his lyric cantata ..." "lthough it is unlikely that Debussy knew Rossetti’s painting The Blessèd Damozel (1877) at the time of writing his cantata – Pre-Raphaelite paintings did not come to France until the 1890s – the illustrations in Sarrazin’s anthology introduced Debussy to the visual element of the Pre-Raphaelite’s exotic ‘other’, especially their exploration of a new type of feminine beauty. " "Premièred at the Société nationale on 8 April 1893, La damoiselle élue was the first of Debussy’s orchestral works to be performed."

Created by LouisAlain (talk). Nominated by Gerda Arendt (talk) at 16:06, 20 June 2017 (UTC).