Songs
Le balcon
(1888)
Part of a series or song cycle:
Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire
Le balcon
The balcony
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Composer
(Achille) Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Poet
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.
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Previously performed at:
- 15 May 2022: Oxford Lieder at Fairlight Hall: Olivia Boen & Sholto Kynoch
- 14 May 2022: Oxford Lieder at Rye Creative Centre: Olivia Boen & Sholto Kynoch
- 12 May 2022: Oxford Lieder at Cedars Hall: Olivia Boen & Sholto Kynoch
- 05 May 2022: Song at Wolfson: Olivia Boen & Sholto Kynoch
- 17 Oct 2020: 39. An Imperfect Tapestry: Gweneth Ann Rand & Simon Lepper