
Songs
La Cigale et la fourmi
(1842)
Part of a series or song cycle:
Six Fables de La Fontaine
La Cigale et la fourmi
The grasshopper and the ant
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Composer
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period. He is remembered for his operettas and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann.
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Poet
Jean de La Fontaine (8 September 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional languages.
After a long period of royal suspicion, he was admitted to the French Academy and his reputation in France has never faded since. Evidence of this is found in the many pictures and statues of the writer, as well as later depictions on medals, coins and postage stamps.
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You can read or download Fontaine's Fables for free here on Gutenberg Press.
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Previously performed at:
- 23 Oct 2019: 63. French Fables: Jess Dandy & Sholto Kynoch