The Eolides

Les Éolides - a symphonic poem composed in 1876 by the Belgian composer César Franck.

The work belongs to program music - in the score the composer entered a fragment of the poem Leconte de Lisla from the volume Poèmes antiques entitled Les Éolides. This text is the program of the song. His performance was entrusted to an orchestra with the composition: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets A, 2 bassoons, 4 E horns, 2 E trumpets, boilers, plates, harp and string quintet. The composer later arranged a piece for two pianos. The work is formally one-part, but the changes and returns to the original pace allow the separation of the five sub-parts: Allegretto vivo, un poco lento, Tempo I, un poco lento, Tempo del inizio. The initial key is A - major; the motifs are strongly polished, although they are clearly intense throughout the course of the work. The dynamics is contrasting, although it seeks to reach a few culminating points, then falling. I take about 10 min. As in the case of a later work, Psyché, the theme of the work is related to Greek mythology - the god of wind Eol and Eolidy fly over Arkadia sent by Poseidon to help Odysseus return by boat. The work transmits the subject in an ambiguous way, although its illustration - wind breezes - is noticeable very easily. Bibliography

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