Notes | Like Augusta Holmès's transcription, Sivry's transcription of Villiers' setting of La Mort des amants modulates into the relative minor of F sharp for the third tercet only, before reverting to the original key of A major.
The melody of this transcription is said to have been noted down 'there and then' Christmas day in 1870, when Villiers was attending Sivry's home; the harmony was added at a later day, prior to publication of the setting in Les Quat'zarts on 3rd April 1898. For a full analysis of this setting, see Helen Abbott, Parisian Intersections: Baudelaire's Legacy to Composers (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012). |
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