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MÉDITATION D-DUR -AUS DER OPER THAÏS - BEARBEIT...

This arrangement for violin and piano of the famous Méditation from Massenet's opera Thaïs from
Edition Peters contains separate violin and piano parts and has been arranged and edited by
Roger Nichols. One of the world's foremost authorities on the music of France  Roger Nichols
has published and broadcast extensively on the music of composers such as Ravel  Satie  Debussy
Chabrier and Berlioz. In 2006 he was appointed chevalier de la Légion d'honneur for his
services to French music. Thaïs  Massenet's tenth completed opera  had its première at the
Paris Opéra on 16 March 1894 with the American soprano Sibyl Sanderson in the title role. The
libretto by Louis Gallet was based on Anatole France's novel of the same name  serialized in
the Revue des deux mondes in 1889 and published in book form the following year. The story
tells of the conversion to Christianity of the courtesan Thaïs by the holy man Athanael  and
his parallel but opposite conversion to a life dominated by lust for her. The Méditation for
solo violin and orchestra  joining the two scenes of Act II  describes the beginning of Thaïs's
conversion. The work was not received well initially  by 1897  when Sanderson retired  it had
reached only its fourteenth performance. But the Méditation was an instant success with
violinists  and its religious association also encouraged church organists to play it at Mass
during the Communion. Even Pope Pius X's motu proprio of 1903  specifically demanding that the
music heard in church should not include reminiscences of those employed in the opera house 
could not prevail against it.

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