Salomé, Op. 100

Composer: BONIS, Mélanie Hélène
  • Bonis’s Salomé was first published in 1909 by Parisian music publisher Alphonse Leduc (Leduc released her Phœbé, Op. 30 and Viviane, Op. 80 the same year.)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). 
  • Bonis also arranged this work for orchestra, and that version is assigned her Op. 100/2.3
  • According to 1st century historian Josephus, Salome was the name of the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas. In the New Testament Gospel narratives (which do not mention her name), she dances before Herod and is rewarded, at her request, with the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Her story also inspired Richard Strauss’s opera Salome. 

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. “Catalogue: Oeuvres pour orchestre,” Mel Bonis: Composer, Association Mel Bonis (2020), accessed June 4, 2021, https://www.mel-bonis.com/EN/Catalogue/.

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