Jeux
Sign in to saveJeux (Games) is a ballet written by Claude Debussy. Described as a "poème dansé" (literally a "danced poem"), it was written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. Debussy initially objected to the scenario but reconsidered the commission when Diaghilev doubled the fee. Debussy wrote the score quickly, from mid-August to mid-September 1912. Robert Orledge has analysed the chronology of Debussy's composition and preserved manuscripts of the score.
Key facts
- Ballet.name
- Jeux
- Ballet.image
- Jeux-1913.jpg
- Ballet.caption
- Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky and Ludmilla Schollar in Jeux
- Ballet.choreographer
- Vaslav Nijinsky
- Ballet.composer
- Claude Debussy
- Ballet.premiere
- 15 May 1913
- Ballet.place
- Paris
- Ballet.ballet_company
- Ballets Russes
- Ballet.designer
- Léon Bakst
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Jeux (Games) is a ballet written by Claude Debussy. Described as a "poème dansé" (literally a "danced poem"), it was written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. Debussy initially objected to the scenario but reconsidered the commission when Diaghilev doubled the fee. Debussy wrote the score quickly, from mid-August to mid-September 1912. Robert Orledge has analysed the chronology of Debussy's composition and preserved manuscripts of the score.
Jeux premiered on 15 May 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, conducted by Pierre Monteux. The work was not well received and was soon eclipsed by Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, which was premiered two weeks later by Diaghilev's company.
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