Phœbé, Op. 30

Composer: BONIS, Mélanie Hélène
  • Bonis’s manuscript for Phœbé is undated. The piece was first published in 1909, by Parisian music publisher Alphonse Leduc.1
  • This piece, along with several other Bonis piano pieces, was dedicated to was dedicated to Paul Locard,2 a music critic and author of books including Le piano (1948). 
  • In Greek mythology, Phoebe was a Titan, and the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis. 

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.

Cut IDs