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Le Coq Et L Arlequin

Le Coq Et L Arlequin

Cocteau, Jean

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 2234063159
ISBN13: 9782234063150
Publisher: Stock
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.33 Width: 4.72 Depth: 7.48
Language: French

The Cockerel and the Harlequin

Rights sold to: Catalonia (Mediterrania)

In Le coq et l'arlequin, published in 1918, Jean Cocteau develops his ideas on what the art of his time should be, with particular reference to music. The book is in fact subtitled: Notes autour de la musique (Notes on Music).
Very avant-garde and prepared to give everything a try, the artist spent a great deal of time with the Russian Ballet from 1910 onwards, and collaborated with Diaghilev and Nijinsky on Le Dieu bleu. He admired Stravinsky's work and was outspoken against critics of The Rites of Spring whose opening in 1913 caused a scandal. He also defended Erik Satie whose originality and commitment were powerful influences on him, and with whom he collaborated on the ballet Parade.
With Parade, Satie turned this artistic form of expression into a circus, and it was with this lineage (as opposed to the heritage of Wagner and Debussy) that the musical group Les Six was launched by Cocteau and the music critic Henri Collet in 1920.

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