Le Gendarme incompris
Le gendarme incompris The misunderstood Gendarme | |
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Written by | Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet |
Date premiered | 24 May 1921 |
Place premiered | Théâtre Michel (Paris) |
Original language | French |
Genre | Comédie bouffe |
Le Gendarme incompris (The misunderstood Gendarme) is a one-act play written in 1920 by Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet and set to music by Francis Poulenc, his FP 20a.
The play features three characters: Commissaire Médor[a] played by Pierre Bertin), a gendarme named the Penultimate whose replicas are from a poem in the Divagations by Stéphane Mallarmé, and an old lady, the Marquise de Montonson.[1]
It was played publicly only once, on 24 May 1921, in addition to the dress rehearsal the day before. Two more performances were scheduled for 25 and 26 May.[2]
Suite
Poulenc derived a suite for orchestra drawn from the incidental music, which was first performed in London on 11 July 1921, conducted by Ernest Ansermet).
The work comprises 3 movements for double bass, cello, violin, clarinet, trumpet and trombone:
- I. Ouverture
- II. Madrigal
- III. Final
The duration is about 6:35 minutes
Notes
- ^ common name for a dog in French
References
- ^ Hervé Lacombe (2013). Francis Poulenc. Paris: Fayard. p. 1888. OCLC 828409020. 1bMPswLwba0C.
- ^ Duchesnau, Michel; de Médicis, François; Caron, Sylvain (2006). Musique et modernité en France, 1900-1945. Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal. p. 101. OCLC 123960160. 49zu4F0IOC0C.
External links
- Le Gendarme incompris on YouYube
- Le Gendarme incompris on data.bnf.fr
- Le gendarme incompris (suite), FP 20b on IMSLP
- Le Gendarme incompris
- Poulenc: Le Gendarme Incompris - Comédie-bouffe en un acte mêlée de chants - Scène 2 - "Enfin cette ridicule comédie va cesser" on Amazon
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