Meditation from "Thais" (for English Horn and Piano) (arr. Harry Walker) by Jules Massenet Sheet Music for English Horn and Piano at Sheet Music Direct
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Meditation from "Thais" (for English Horn and Piano) (arr. Harry Walker) Digital Sheet Music
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Meditation from "Thais" (for English Horn and Piano) (arr. Harry Walker)by Jules Massenet English Horn and Piano - Digital Sheet Music

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"Méditation" is a symphonic intermezzo from the opera Thaïs by French composer Jules Massenet. The piece is written for solo violin and orchestra. The opera premiered at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on March 16, 1894. The Méditation is an instrumental entr'acte performed between the scenes of Act II in the opera Thaïs. In the first scene of Act II, Athanaël, a Cenobite monk, confronts Thaïs, a beautiful and hedonistic courtesan and devotée of Venus, and attempts to persuade her to leave her life of luxury and pleasure and find salvation through God. It is during a time of reflection following the encounter that the Méditation is played by the orchestra. In the second scene of Act II, following the Méditation, Thaïs tells Athanaël that she will follow him to the desert. In this version, the composition was arranged for English Horn and Piano by Harry Walker.

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