Les aventures du roi Pausole (The adventures of King Pausole) is an opérette in three acts with music by Arthur Honegger and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz, based on the 1901 novel by Pierre Louÿs. It was Honegger's third operatic work, but his first in lighter vein, composed between May and November 1930, and dedicated to Fernand Ochsé. Excluding dialogue, there is around 75 minutes of music, making it longer than many of his more serious works. While showing the influence of Mozart, Chabrier and Messager, it contains a wide range of orchestral colours with occasional glances at jazz of the 1930s.
This is Francis Salabert's arrangement of the Operetta as published in 1930. The suite has 5 movements:
1. Animé
2. Modéré
3. Lent
4. Très doux, pas trop lent
5. Mouvement de Boléro
- Difficulty:
- Intermediate
- Instrumentation:
- Fl&Picc, Ob, 2Cl, Bsn, 2Hn, 2Tpt, 3Tbn, Perc, Cel, Pno, Strings
- Duration:
- 13 minutes
- Set of Parts:
- Includes Strings count 4.4.3.3.2
- Extra Strings:
- Only available with the purchase of the Set of Parts