Pelléas et Mélisande (Sibelius)
| Pelléas and Mélisande | |
|---|---|
| Theatre score & suite by Jean Sibelius | |
The composer (c. 1905) | |
| Native name | Pelléas och Mélisande |
| Catalogue | JS 147 (score) |
| Opus | 46 (suite) |
| Text | play by Maurice Maeterlinck |
| Language | Swedish (trans. French) |
| Composed | 1905, arr. 1905 |
| Publisher | Lienau (Op. 46) |
| Movements | 10 (JS 147); 9 (Op. 46) |
| Premiere | |
| Date | 17 March 1905 |
| Location | |
| Conductor | Jean Sibelius |
| Performers | Helsinki Philharmonic Society |
Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas och Mélisande), JS 147, is incidental music by Jean Sibelius for Maurice Maeterlinck's 1892 play Pelléas and Mélisande. Sibelius composed in 1905 ten parts, overtures to the five acts and five other movements. It was first performed at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki on 17 March 1905 to a translation by Bertel Gripenberg, conducted by the composer.
Sibelius later slightly rearranged the music into a nine movement suite, published as Op. 46, which became one of his most popular concert works.