Death and the Maiden
World premiere:
23 Feb 1937, Ballet Rambert, Duchess Theatre, London
Music title:
Andante Cantabile from the String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden' (1824)
Music details:
Live music: initially piano, later a string quartet or quintet
Source:
Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue:
WORK/0090
Performances
Date ↿⇂ | Programme ↿⇂ | Venue ↿⇂ |
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23 Feb 1937 Evening |
Foyer de Danse | Cinderella | Lysistrata, The Strike of Wives | Death and the Maiden* | Bar aux Folies-Bergère | Duchess Theatre, London |
10 Jun 1937 Matinee |
The Strike of Wives | Valse Romantique No. 2 (Chabrier) | Bluebird | Death and the Maiden | The Planets | La Muse s'Amuse | Valse Caprice (Rubenstein) | Capriol Suite | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
10 Jun 1937 Evening |
The Strike of Wives | Bluebird | Death and the Maiden | The Planets | La Muse s'Amuse | Valse Caprice (Rubenstein) | Capriol Suite | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
14 Jun 1937 Evening |
Our Lady's Juggler | Valse Romantique No. 1 (Chabrier) | L'Après-midi d'un faune | Passionate Pavane | Bluebird | The Lady of Shalott | Suite of Airs | Death and the Maiden | Valse Romantique No. 3 (Chabrier) | Le Cricket | Le Rugby | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
18 Jun 1937 Evening |
Foyer de Danse | Musical Interlude | The Planets | Mermaid | Musical Interlude | Le Cricket | Le Rugby | Le Boxing | Death and the Maiden | Musical Interlude | Bar aux Folies-Bergère | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
19 Jun 1937 Evening |
Foyer de Danse | Musical Interlude | The Planets | Mermaid | Musical Interlude | Le Cricket | Le Rugby | Le Boxing | Death and the Maiden | Musical Interlude | Bar aux Folies-Bergère | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
24 Oct 1937 Evening |
The Descent of Hebe | Death and the Maiden | Pavane pour une Infante Défunte* | La Muse s'Amuse | Jardin aux Lilas | Mercury Theatre, London |
16 Mar 1938 Evening |
Foyer de Danse | The Tartans | Le Péri* | Death and the Maiden | Standchen (Strauss, arr. Walter Gieseking) | Liebeslied (Kreisler, arr. Rachmaninoff) | Capriol Suite | Mercury Theatre, London |
19 Mar 1939 Evening |
Dances from ''Lac des Cygnes'' | Paris-Soir* | Death and the Maiden | Death and the Maiden | Capriol Suite | Mercury Theatre, London |
19 Mar 1939 Evening |
Dances from ''Lac des Cygnes'' | Paris-Soir* | Death and the Maiden | Death and the Maiden | Capriol Suite | Mercury Theatre, London |
5 Dec 1939 Evening |
La Muse s'Amuse | Death and the Maiden | Czernyana* | Les Masques (ou, Changement de Dames) | Bar aux Folies-Bergère | Duchess Theatre, London |
1 May 1940 Time unknown |
Mermaid | Peter and the Wolf (A Fable Without a Moral)* | Death and the Maiden | Bar aux Folies-Bergère | Arts Theatre Cambridge |
28 Jun 1940 Evening |
Soirée Musicale* | Death and the Maiden | Lady into Fox | Bar aux Folies-Bergère | The Arts Theatre Club, London |
1 Oct 1940 After-lunch |
Overture | Judgment of Paris* | Death and the Maiden | Piano Interlude | Gala Performance | The Arts Theatre Club, London |
26 Nov 1940 Evening |
Czernyana | Enigma Variations* | Death and the Maiden | Two Romantic Waltzes (Chabrier) | Gala Performance | Arts Theatre Cambridge |
26 Nov 1940 Evening |
Czernyana | Enigma Variations* | Death and the Maiden | Two Romantic Waltzes (Chabrier) | Gala Performance | Arts Theatre Cambridge |
7 May 1941 Tea |
Overture | Passionate Pavane | Panaderos* | Shepherd's Wooing | Prelude | Valse | Mazurka | Pas de Deux | Interlude | Death and the Maiden | Interlude | Les Masques (ou, Changement de Dames) | The Arts Theatre Club, London |
5 Jul 1941 Early evening |
Death and the Maiden | Exorcism by Fire* | Cap Over Mill* | The Arts Theatre Club, London |
26 Mar 1943 Time unknown |
Les Sylphides | Death and the Maiden | Spanish Dance | Russian Dance (from 'Midnight Sun') | Foyer de Danse | Confessional | Carnival of Animals* | Mercury Theatre, London |
27 Nov 1944 Evening |
Carnaval | Death and the Maiden | The Fugitive | Gala Performance | Theatre Royal, Bristol |