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Chasse fantastique

[musical score]
267 bars
piano solo

Composition: by 5-9-1865, when Bizet performed it. It was announced as Chasse à courre, pièce inédite symphonique, but the title was changed before publication early in 1866. The piece may have been modelled on Stephen Heller’s La Chasse: étude caractéristique, op. 29, published in 1842, also in 6/8 in E♭, which was in Bizet's library. Its dedication suggests that it may also have been a response to Marmontel's dedication to Bizet in 1865 of one of his 24 Grandes Études, op. 85. In 1887 Ernest Guiraud published a Chasse fantastique, poème symphonique for orchestra in G minor.

Self-borrowing (from): The four-bar tune at bars 47-50 was taken from ‘Quand la sainte Olga’ at bar 18 in no. 14 of Ivan IV.

Autograph score: not known

Printed score:
pl. no:

H. 4507

pages:

title page, blank, 1-14

date:

1866

ann.:

Bibliographie de la France, 17-3-1866, @ 7f 50.

copies:

F-Pn Vm12 3371 (stamped 1866)

D-B 47569

D-Mbs (IMSLP)

E-Mn MC/21/16

GB-En

GB-Lbl (stamped 12-7-1866)

US-Wc M25.B (two copies, one a gift of Mina Curtiss)

Dedicatee: Antoine-François Marmontel (1816–98), professor of piano at the Conservatoire since 1848 and Bizet's piano teacher.

Performance: Bizet, in the salons Pleyel-Wolff, 5-9-1865.

Discography:
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