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title
La venus de Elna (Elne)
genre
Ballet Music
composition year
1945
publisher
Tritó Edicions, S.L.
duration
20'
Instrumentation

2121+Tenora-2230, tmp+1, arp, cu

premiere

02-03-1946. Yvonne Alexander and Paul Goubé, soloists. Pere Pruna, set decoration and figurines. Joan Pich, director. Palace of Catalan Music. Barcelona.

http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1946/03/05/pagina-16/33096994/pdf.html

 

additional information

Ballet in three paintings for tenora and symphony orchestra.

Based on a legend from the Rousillon.

There is a piano version.

The Ballets de la Méditérranée of Paul Goubé played this piece in Berlin in may 1956.

Comments

"Compared to his other scores, he has surpassed those airs, more or less Frenchized, somewhat mocking, that were the product of an influence from the first post-war period, floating here and there, in the staves of Montsalvatge."

 

Tristán La Rosa, 1945.

La Venus de Elna

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