Die blaue Blume (ballet)

Die blaue Blume (ballet)
(The blue flower) Ballet music – ‘a summer night’s open air ballet’ to a scenario by choreograph Pino Mlakar

Year of composition

1936

Duration

75'

Scored for

no instrumentation by Frank Martin, except for ‘Danse de la peur’ (Dance of fear), for two pianos and small orchestra: 0 0 2 0 - 0 2 3 1 - timp. - perc. - cel. - alto sax, t.sax - strings
In 2024 the complete ballet has been orchestrated by Nicolas Bolens for large orchestra: 2 2 2 2 2sax - 2 2 3 1 - perc. - harp - acc. - cel. - 2pno - strings

Publication information

Universal Edition: ‘Danse de la peur’ (UE15845)

Text file

  1. http://www.frankmartin.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-10-Die-blaue-Blume-a-ballet-in-a-desk-drawer.pdf
  2. http://www.frankmartin.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/241002-Die-blaue-Blume-Ballet-in-een-bureaula.pdf

Premiere

World première of ‘Danse de la peur’: Geneva 28 June 1944. Madeleine and Dinu Lipatti, piano; Edmond Appia, conductor
World première of ‘Die blaue Blume’ in the orchestration of Nicolas Bolens: Geneva 19 October 2024 - L’Odyssée Frank Martin. Orchestre de la Haute école de musique de Genève (HEM); Thierry Fischer, conductor; Pierre Fouchenneret, solo violin; Loïc Vallaeys and Arthur Noël, piano; Mourad Merzouki, direction and choreography; dancers of the Käfig Company with the participation of dance students from the Conservatoire populaire’s pre-professional curriculum

Manuscript

Manuscript (short score) at the Paul Sacher Stiftung
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