Dolly Suite, Op. 56

• Dolly is a set of pieces for piano duet which Faure composed between 1894–6.¹
• Fauré dedicated Dolly to Hélène Bardac,² the daughter of his lover Emma Bardac.³
  • Emma Bardac would go on to have a relationship with, and then marry, Claude Debussy. 
• Henri Rabaud orchestrated Dolly in 1906.⁴

Movements

1. Berceuse 
2. Mi-a-ou (originally entitled “Messieu Aoul!”)⁵
3. Jardin de Dolly 
4. Kitty Valse 
5. Tendresse 
6. Pas Espagnol⁶

1. Jean-Michel Nectoux, “Fauré, Gabriel,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 8, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009366.
2. “Dolly Suite, Op.56 (Fauré, Gabriel),” IMSLP, accessed July 8, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Dolly_Suite%2C_Op.56_(Faur%C3%A9%2C_Gabriel).
3. Nectoux, “Fauré, Gabriel,” Grove Music Online.
4. Ibid.
5. Nectoux, “Fauré, Gabriel,” Grove Music Online.
6. “Dolly Suite, Op.56 (Fauré, Gabriel),” IMSLP.