Jean Balissat
Promenade avec J.J. Rousseau
for string orchestra
- Duration: 13'
- Genre: contemporary
- Series: Swiss Composers Series
- Composed: 2000
Reference: ORCH64b
Orchestra score
Orchestra score
CHF43.00
- Publisher: Editions Bim
- Movements:
- 1. Ouverture
- 2. Lento
- 4. Passacaille
- 5. Allons danser sous les ormeaux
- 3. Menuet
- 1. Ouverture
Promenade
Jean Balissat (1936-2007)
Jean Balissat was born in 1936 in Lausanne (Switzerland), and was drawn straight away to composing and conducting. He studied harmony and counterpoint in Lausanne, before taking composition, orches...
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About Promenade avec J.J. Rousseau
Plays with excerpts of the Devin du Village
Promenade avec Jean-Jacques Rousseau plays with excerpts of the Devin du Village (1752), instrumented, arranged and composed for strings. Played for the king, in Fontainebleau in 1752, Le Devin du Village [The Diviner of the Village] gained a considerable success and maintained for more than a half-a-century Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s reputation as a composer. It is a pleasant lyrical pastorale which charm essentially relates to the melodic invention. Inspired in the same manner Stravinsky treated Pergolese’s music in his Pulcinella, I conceived the Promenade using eight fragments of the Devin du Village, always quoted in their original key.