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1927 ballet

L'éventail de Jeanne
Choreographer	Alice Bourgat Yvonne Franck
Music	Ten French composers
Premiere	4 March 1929 (1929-03-04) Paris Opera

L'éventail de Jeanne (Jean's Fan) is a children's ballet choreographed in 1927 by Alice Bourgat and Yvonne Franck.

The music is a collaborative work by ten French composers, each of whom contributed a stylised dance in classic form:

Maurice Ravel (Fanfare)
Pierre-Octave Ferroud (Marche)
Jacques Ibert (Valse)
Alexis Roland-Manuel (Canarie)
Marcel Delannoy (Bourrée)
Albert Roussel (Sarabande)
Darius Milhaud (Polka)
Francis Poulenc (Pastourelle)
Georges Auric (Rondeau)
Florent Schmitt (Finale: Kermesse-Valse)

"Jeanne" refers to a Parisian hostess and patroness of the arts, Jeanne Dubost, who ran a children's ballet school. In the spring of 1927 she presented ten of her composer friends with leaves from her fan, asking each of them to write a little dance for her pupils. The children were dressed in fairytale costumes and the décor was enlivened by a set designed with mirrors.

It was produced in private at Jeanne Dubost's Paris salon on 16 June 1927, with Maurice Ravel playing a piano transcription of the music. It had its public premiere at the Paris Opera on 4 March 1929, with the ten-year-old Tamara Toumanova dancing the lead role. This was the first performance of Darius Milhaud's music there and he was so annoyed to debut with a trifling work that he boycotted the performance.

Excerpts have been recorded, particularly Ravel's Fanfare and Poulenc's Pastourelle. The first complete recording was made in 1984 by the Philharmonia Orchestra led by Geoffrey Simon.

References

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed.
What’s What in Titles of Classical Music – and Beyond
The Music of Albert Roussel

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External links

Video – Darius Milhaud – L'éventail de Jeanne (30:00).

v t e Maurice Ravel
List of compositions
Stage	Daphnis et Chloé (ballet) L'enfant et les sortilèges (opera) L'éventail de Jeanne (ballet) L'heure espagnole (opera) Ma mère l'Oye (ballet)
Orchestral	Alborada del gracioso Boléro Le Tombeau de Couperin La valse Ma mère l'Oye Menuet antique Miroirs Pavane pour une infante défunte Pictures at an Exhibition Rapsodie espagnole Shéhérazade Valses nobles et sentimentales
Concertante	Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand Piano Concerto in G Tzigane
Chamber	Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet, and String Quartet Piano Trio in A minor Sonata for Violin and Cello Violin Sonata No. 1 Violin Sonata No. 2 String Quartet in F Tzigane
Solo piano	Gaspard de la nuit Jeux d'eau Le Tombeau de Couperin Menuet antique Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn Miroirs Pavane pour une infante défunte Sonatine Valses nobles et sentimentales
Vocal	Chansons madécasses Two Hebrew Songs Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Histoires naturelles Trois poèmes de Mallarmé Trois Chansons
Related	Pierre-Joseph Ravel (father) Close and open harmony Impressionism in music Ravel Peak The Bolero Les Apaches
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Little Symphonies	No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6

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v t e Francis Poulenc
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Operas	Les mamelles de Tirésias (1947) Dialogues of the Carmelites (1957) La voix humaine (1959)
Ballets	Les biches (1922) Aubade (1929) Les Animaux modèles (1941)
Orchestral music	Sinfonietta (1947)
Concertos	Concert champêtre (1927) Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932) Organ Concerto (1938) Piano Concerto (1949)
Chamber music	Rapsodie nègre (1917) Sonata for two clarinets (1918) Sonata for clarinet and bassoon (1922) Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone (1922) Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano (1926) Sextet (1932) Villanelle (1934) Suite française (1935) Violin Sonata (1942) Cello Sonata (1948) Élégie pour cor et piano (1957) Flute sonata (1957) Clarinet Sonata (1962) Oboe Sonata (1962)
Piano music	Mouvements perpétuels (1919) Piano Suite (1920) Trois novelettes (1927) Soirées de Nazelles (1936) L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant (1940) La Courte Paille (1960)
Songs	Chanson à boire (1922) Chansons gaillardes (1926) Fiançailles pour rire (1939) Les Chemins de l'amour (1940) Banalités (1940)
Choir (a cappella)	Messe en sol majeur (1937) Sécheresses (1937) Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence (1939) Figure humaine (1943)
Choir and orchestra	Litanies à la Vierge Noire (1936) Stabat Mater (1950) Gloria (1959) Sept répons des ténèbres (1963)
Collaborations	L'Album des Six (1919) Les mariés de la tour Eiffel (1921) L'éventail de Jeanne (1927) Variations sur le nom de Marguerite Long (1956)
Incidental music	Le Gendarme incompris (1920) Intermezzo (1933) Léocadia (1940) L'Invitation au château (1947) Amphitryon (1947) Renaud et Armide (1962)
Related	Les Six Brigitte Manceaux Neoclassicism "L'adieu du cavalier" (Tailleferre)
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