Thalia by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1739, Musée des beaux-arts de San Francisco (wikimedia.org)

Mélicerte is a:

• two-act heroic pastoral comedy inhabited by shepherds and shepherdesses.
• It is an incomplete (two acts out of three) heroic pastoral comedy
• Molière wrote Mélicerte in alexandrine verses, le vers noble.
• Molière’s Mélicerte is the third of thirteen “entrées” in Isaac de Benserade‘s Ballet des Muses.
• Thalia is the muse of comedy.
• The music was composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully.
• Molière drew his inspiration from an épisode of Le Grand Cyrus, a novel by Madeleine de Scudéry (Sapho) who had a salon. Guests visited on Saturday. It was la Société du samedi, the Saturday Society.
• Mélicerte was performed for the court on 2 December 1666, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a royal residence.

Mélicerte, anonymous (théâtre.documention.com)

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Beethoven – 6th Symphony – Pastoral

© Micheline Walker
1 May 2019
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