Maurice Maeterlinck - Maeterlinck in Music

Maeterlinck in Music

Pelléas and Mélisande inspired four major musical compositions at the turn of the 20th century:

• 1898: an orchestral suite (sometimes described as incidental music) by Gabriel Fauré (Op. 80)
• 1893-1902: an opera by Claude Debussy (L. 88, Paris), see Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
• 1902-1903: a symphonic poem by Arnold Schoenberg (Op. 5)
• 1905: incidental music by Jean Sibelius (Op. 46), see Pelléas et Mélisande (Sibelius)

Other musical works based on Maeterlinck's plays include:

• Aglavaine and Sélysette
  • orchestral prelude by Arthur Honegger

• Aladina and Palomid
  • opera by Burghauser
  • opera by Osvald Chlubna
  • opera by Emil František Burian

• Ariane et Barbe-bleue
  • opera in 3 acts by Paul Dukas
  • incidental music by Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov

• The Betrothal
  • incidental music by Armstrong Gibbs

• The Blind
  • opera by Beat Furrer
  • opera Slepcy by Polish composer Jan Astriab after Maeterlinck's Les aveugles

• The Death of Tintagiles
  • symphonic poem by Charles Martin Loeffler
  • incidental music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • opera by Lawrance Collingwood
  • overture by Carse
  • opera by Nougues
  • symphonioc poem by Santoliquido
  • orchestral prelude by Voormolen

• Monna Vanna
  • opera in 3 acts by Emil Ábrányi
  • Monna Vanna, opera in 4 acts by Henry Février
  • Monna Vanna, unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • opera in 4 acts by Nicolae Brânzeu

• L'oiseau bleu
  • opera by Albert Wolff
  • 13 scenes for orchestra by Fritz Hart
  • incidental music by Leslie Heward
  • incidental music by Engelbert Humperdinck
  • overture by Kricka
  • incidental music by Norman O'Neill
  • incidental music by Szeligowski

• Princess Maleine
  • overture by Pierre de Bréville
  • overture by Cyril Scott
  • unfinished opera (or incidental music) by Lili Boulanger
  • incidental music by Maximilian Steinberg

• The Seven Princesses
  • incidental music by Bréville
  • opera by Nechayev

• Soeur Beatrice
  • opera by Alexander Grechaninov
  • chorus by Anatoly Liadov
  • opera Sor Beatriz by Marquez Puig
  • opera by Dmitri Mitropoulos
  • opera by Rasse

• Intérieur
  • opera by Giedrius Kuprevičius