- This piece comes from Pierné’s incidental music to the a dramatized adaptation of Pierre Loti’s novel Ramuntcho (1897). The piece premiered in 1908.1
- Story: in Ramuntcho, the title character is a young man, son of Parisian and Basque parents, trying to fit in with his fellow Basques despite feeling torn between Parisian and Basque cultures.2
Sources
- Georges Masson, “Pierné, (Henri Constant) Gabriel,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed December 11, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000021712.
- Richard M. Barrong, Pierre Loti (London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2018), ebook, accessed December 12, 2019, https://books.google.com/books?id=uRJxDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=pierre+loti&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj02NbZirHmAhWEu54KHUxSDnoQ6AEwAnoECAYQAw#v=onepage&q=ramuntcho&f=false.
Cut IDs
21213