Music Text
Baudelaire (F)
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Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
World Premiere
19/10/2007
Grant Recital Hall - Brown University, Providence, RI
Lucy Shelton, soprano
Composer's Notes
La Musique, for solo voice, is a short commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857, and is taken from that book of poems.
The piece is a small addition to the recital Lucy Shelton was to give of settings of Baudelaire for that occasion and is dedicated to her.
Elliott Carter, 8/1/07
Reproduction Rights
This programme note can be reproduced free of charge in concert programmes with a credit to the composer
