DOI Artikel:
Willeby, Charles: The composer of "Carmen"
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21215#0082
yS The Composer of " Carmen "
right in the pathway of the fashions, the whims of the hour,
the flashing and changing vortex of all Paris, people could be
interested in this drama of love taking place in the farmyard in
the piain of Camargue, füll of the odour of well-plenished granaries
and lavender in flower. It was a splendid failure ; clothed in the
prettiest music possible, with costumes of silk and velvet in the
centre of comic opera scenery." Then he goes on to teil us : "I
came away discouraged and sickened, the silly laughter with which
the emotional scenes were greeted still ringing in my ears; and
without attempting to defend myself in the papers, where on all
sides the attack was led against this play, wanting in surprises—
this painting in three acts of manners and events of which I alone
could appreciate the absolute fidelity. I resolved to write no
more plays, and heaped one upon the other all the hostile notices
as a rampart around my determination."
At this time Bizet seems to have come a good deal into contact
with Jean Baptiste Faure. They met frequently at the Op6ra.
" You really must do something more for Bizet," said the baritone
to Louis Gallet. " Put your heads together, you and Blau, and
write something that shall be b'ten pour moi" " Lorenzaccio,"
perhaps the strongest of De Musset's dramatic efForts, first came
up. But Faure was not at all in touch with it. The röle of
Brutus—fawning Judas that he is—revolted him. He had no
fancy to distort as menteur ä triple etage ; so the subject was put
by. Then came Bizet one morning with an old issue of Le
"Journal pour tous in his pocket. " Here is the very thing for
us: ' Le Jeunesse du Cid' of Guilhem de Castro; not, mark
you, the Cid of Corneille alone, but the inceptive Cid in all the
glory of its pristine colour—the Cid, Don Rodrigue de Bivar, in
the words of Sainte-Beuve ' the immortal flower of honour and of
love.' " The seine du mendiant held Bizet completely. It was to
him
right in the pathway of the fashions, the whims of the hour,
the flashing and changing vortex of all Paris, people could be
interested in this drama of love taking place in the farmyard in
the piain of Camargue, füll of the odour of well-plenished granaries
and lavender in flower. It was a splendid failure ; clothed in the
prettiest music possible, with costumes of silk and velvet in the
centre of comic opera scenery." Then he goes on to teil us : "I
came away discouraged and sickened, the silly laughter with which
the emotional scenes were greeted still ringing in my ears; and
without attempting to defend myself in the papers, where on all
sides the attack was led against this play, wanting in surprises—
this painting in three acts of manners and events of which I alone
could appreciate the absolute fidelity. I resolved to write no
more plays, and heaped one upon the other all the hostile notices
as a rampart around my determination."
At this time Bizet seems to have come a good deal into contact
with Jean Baptiste Faure. They met frequently at the Op6ra.
" You really must do something more for Bizet," said the baritone
to Louis Gallet. " Put your heads together, you and Blau, and
write something that shall be b'ten pour moi" " Lorenzaccio,"
perhaps the strongest of De Musset's dramatic efForts, first came
up. But Faure was not at all in touch with it. The röle of
Brutus—fawning Judas that he is—revolted him. He had no
fancy to distort as menteur ä triple etage ; so the subject was put
by. Then came Bizet one morning with an old issue of Le
"Journal pour tous in his pocket. " Here is the very thing for
us: ' Le Jeunesse du Cid' of Guilhem de Castro; not, mark
you, the Cid of Corneille alone, but the inceptive Cid in all the
glory of its pristine colour—the Cid, Don Rodrigue de Bivar, in
the words of Sainte-Beuve ' the immortal flower of honour and of
love.' " The seine du mendiant held Bizet completely. It was to
him