Faust et Hélène Tenor, Baritone, Mezzo-soprano, Piano - Lili Boulanger
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Lili Boulanger (b.1893) died a few months before her 25th birthday. She had been afflicted by a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, possibly Crohn's disease, since childhood. Her father was a composer and teacher and Fauré was a close family friend, so she was bought up in an environment where music was a daily occurrence. She was a charismatic young woman who charmed all who came into contact with her. Fiercely intelligent and self-disciplined, she won the prestigious Prix de Rome (1913) only four years after starting formal composition lessons at the Conservatoire in Paris.
Faust et Hélène last 30 minutes. She was closeted in the Palais de Compiègne for a month to compose this - as well as a fugue for voices, as the rules of the Prix de Rome dictated. She completed the piano short score by herself but her illness relapsed and Lili was allowed to dictate the orchestration. Faust courts Helen of Troy with the doom-laden interjections of Mephisto. The ghosts of all those soldiers who died for Helen appear and finally take her away. The setting is lyrical and sinister by turns.
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