- Bizet wrote Jeux d’enfants (Children’s Games), a suite of 12 piano duets, in 1871.1
- Bizet orchestrated six of the duets, but the final orchestral version contained just five movements from Jeux d’enfants: nos. 2, 3, 6, 11, and 12. The orchestral version premiered on March 2, 1873, in a performance by the Concerts Colonne.2
- The orchestral version is also called Petite Suite (Bizet’s Op.22).
Movements: Piano version
- L’Escarpolette (The Swing)
- La Toupie (The Spinning Top)
- La Poupée (The Doll)
- Les Chevaux de Bois (The Rocking Horse)
- Le Volant (The Shuttlecock – as in, badminton)
- Trompette et Tambour (Trumpet and Drum)
- Les Bulles de Savon (The Soap Bubbles)
- Les Quatre Coins (The Four Corners – a children’s game)
- Colin-Maillard (Blind-man’s Buff)
- Saute-Mouton (Leapfrog)
- Petit Mari, Petite Femme! (Little Husband, Little Wife)
- Le Bal (The Ball)3
Movements: Orchestral Version (Petite Suite)
- Marche (Trompette et Tambour)
- Berceuse (La Poupée)
- Impromptu (La Toupie)
- Duo (Petit Mari, Petite Femme)
- Galop (Le Bal)4
Sources
- Hugh Macdonald, “Bizet, Georges,” Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press, 2001), accessed July 16, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000051829.
- Ibid.
- “Jeux d’enfants (Bizet, Georges),” IMSLP, accessed July 16, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Jeux_d’enfants_(Bizet%2C_Georges).
- Georges Bizet, Jeux d’enfants Suite for Orchestra (London: Eulenberg, 1959), 2.
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