Viviane, Op. 80

Composer: BONIS, Mélanie Hélène
  • This work was first released by Parisian music publisher Alphonse Leduc in 1909.1
  • Viviane was dedicated to Paul Locard,2 a music critic and author of books including Le piano (1948). 
  • Bonis wrote an alternate version of Viviane, which is labeled her Op. 81. This version was dedicated to her son, Édouard Domange. Op. 81 also exists in versions for piano four-hands, and for orchestra.3
  • Viviane (or Vivien) is one of the names of the Lady of the Lake in Arthurian legend. Notably, she is called Vivien in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. 

This piece was republished in 2003 in Femmes de légende, the first volume of Furore’s complete edition of Bonis’s piano works. 

Sources

  1. “Catalogue: Piano seul,” Mel Bonis: Composer, Association Mel Bonis (2020), accessed June 3, 2021, https://www.mel-bonis.com/EN/Catalogue/.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Ibid.

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