Phidylé

Phidylé is a mélodie by the French composer Henri Duparc, dedicated to his friend Ernest Chausson. It is a setting of a poem with the same title from Poèmes et poésies (1858) by the French Parnassian poet Leconte de Lisle.[lower-alpha 1][2] Duparc first completed a setting for high male voice and piano (1882), and then orchestrated it (1891-1892).[3][4] The music, which shows the influence of Wagnerian voice leading and chromaticism,[5] progressively rises from languid tranquillity to the singer's triumphant climax, accompanied by heavy chords and tremolos in the piano, before a solo postlude for the piano which gradually dies to a pianissimo finish.[6] It has been suggested that Phidylé was inspired by Gabriel Fauré's 1870 mélodie Lydia, also a setting of a poem by Leconte de Lisle.[7]

For the genus of spiders, see Phidyle.

Notes and references
  1. Note that Leconte de Lisle wrote another poem with the same title which he included in his Poèmes antiques. That poem was set by Reynaldo Hahn.[1]
  1. Hahn, Reynaldo (1892). "A Phidylé". imslp.org. & also no.9 in Hahn, Reynaldo (1900). "Études latines". imslp.org.
  2. Lisle, Leconte de (1858). Poésies complètes (in French). Poulet-Malassis et De Broise. p. 241.
  3. François-Sappey, Brigitte; Cantagrel, Gilles (1994). Guide de la mélodie et du lied (in French). Fayard. p. 269. ISBN 9782213639482.
  4. Northcote, Sydney (1949). The Songs of Henri Duparc. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 9781447492757.
  5. Grey, Thomas S. (2008). The Cambridge Companion to Wagner. Cambridge University Press. p. 372. ISBN 9781139825948.
  6. Meister, Barbara (1998). Nineteenth-century French Song: Fauré, Chausson, Duparc, and Debussy. Indiana University Press. p. 261. ISBN 0253211751.
  7. Johnson, Graham (2009). Gabriel Faure. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 64. ISBN 9780754659600.
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