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Music Inspired by Pelleas and Melisande

How the play Pelleas and Melisande inspired several composers. Over 13 years after it was published the play had inspired an opera by Debussy, a symphonic poem by Arnold Schoenber, a suite by Gabriel Faur茅 and incidental music written by Jean Sibelius.

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91热爆 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project