Season 10 · 8 Dec 202110#6 War and Peace: "The death drives advance in silence..." (Freud)- 35:49His Ballets Russes make Parisian music-lovers' hearts race.
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Dominique Pagani mentions Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes, which serve him as a landmark for situating Parisian musical life in the early twentieth century. He often returns to the place these Ballets held in Paris at the time: they enliven the musical scene and dominate it, they "enchant" the city and "make the hearts" of music lovers beat123. Above all, he sees them as a place of creation: it is through them that the Russian avant-garde is performed in Paris and that major premieres are given there45. In his view, they show that European music is being renewed by the Russians and that Russia then stands at its centre67. He speaks of Diaghilev in sessions devoted to Debussy, to Wagner or to modal and tonal music, and he links him to the scandal of the Rite8910. In these passages, Diaghilev appears as an organiser of musical life, not as an author whose work he would read.
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Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise. […]
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