Who wrote the music for the ballet 'Daphnis et Chloé'?
Daphnis et Chloé protagonist, Robert Neville listens to the suite after discovering the bacteria "vampirus." Daphnis et Chloé Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet in one act with three parts (scenes) by Maurice Ravel described as a "symphonie chorégraphique" (choreographic symphony). The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from a romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD. Scott Goddard published a contemporary commentary that discussed the changes to the story that Fokine made to prepare a workable ballet scenario. The story concerns the love between the goatherd Daphnis and the shepherdess Chloé. Ravel began work
Daphnis et Alcimadure of Italian music (and therefore not an admirer of Mondonville), approved the use of the Occitan language, as it was closer to Italian and thus partly able to camouflage the insipidity of Mondonville's work. "Daphnis et Alcimadure" received a favourable review in the "Mercure de France" and the degree of its success may be gauged by the fact that it inspired several parodies: "Jérôme et Fanchonnette ou Anacréon à la Grenouillère", "pastorale poissarde" (billingsgate pastorale) by Jean-Joseph Vadé (1719–1757), which was given at the Foire St Germain on 18 February 1755; "Daphnis et Alcimadure" performed in May 1756; "Les Amours