Confirmation of piece from Fairy Doll/Die Pupenfee ballet, please?

[NikF]

My girlfriend would like to find a piece music from the aforementioned ballet - this is it here

https://youtu.be/OSH7E5tSi_A

Problem is, the only readily available recording to use seems to be one issued on Naxos, but it doesn't have the music from the above clip. After looking around I discovered it could be composed by Riccardo Drigo. Is this the case? If so, could you provide a title?

Thanks for any information you can provide.

[pjme]

Hi, the music for "Die Puppenfee" was written by Josef Bayer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Bayer.

Drigo apparently wrote ( ca 1903) some extra music for Bayer's ballet that does not feature in the Naxos recording... The fragment on You Tube is possibly Drigo's  Pas de trois, possibly used later as part of  "Les coquetteries de Colombine".

I found also this comment:

Music for the Pas de Trois in the St. Petersburg "Fairy Doll" is certainly by Drigo and not Bayer. But it was added by the Legat brothers in 1903. That the  choreography is by the Legats for themselves makes sense due to the similar/mirror male roles. That also is indicated by Maryinsky sources. Pavlova danced the Spanish variation in the Legats' 1903 staging. Later, for her own  company, she danced an "enhanced" version of the title role with choreography by Ivan Clustine (who had already staged a version in Moscow prior to the one by the Legats). None of the "Harlequinade/H's Millions" I've seen (Boris Romanov's for Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, George Ge's for the Finnish 
National, George Balanchine's for NYC Ballet, and a presumed Petipa revival for the Maly) have anything that corresponds choreographically to the Pas de Trois. Let's not take the credit away from the Legats without better evidence. ....

Where does the Drigo music come from? Perhaps from "Harlequinade",  but it was in repertory in Petersburg in 1903. Would Drigo (who was still alive then) have used the identical measures in 2 ballets? I suspect that it may have come  either from another Drigo ballet or was composed for "Fairy Doll" and when that went out of the regular repertory, the music may have found its way into "Harlequinade". But that's guess work. 



This pas de trois may be on this disc



Peter

[NikF]

Peter, thank you for taking the time to look into that and for your suggestion of where the music might be found. It's much appreciated.


edit: and due to the help offered by your informative reply, a review via Amazon -

--"Pas de trois"--
The next piece offered is by Riccardo Drigo (1846-1930), and is titled simply as "Pas de trois". Once again the liner notes don't give us a scrap of information concerning the origins of this piece.

As with the preceding recording of "La Bayadère", the orchestral parts used by Bonynge for this piece are taken from the music used by Anna Pavlova's touring company. Pavlova performed this Pas de trois under the title "Les Coquetteries de Columbine". This has lead many historians to incorrectly believe that this Pas de trois is an excerpt from Drigo's score for Petipa's 1900 ballet "Les Millions d'Arlequin" (aka "Harlequinade"), a ballet that features a lead character named Columbine. This Pas de trois was originally composed by Drigo ad hoc for the legendary ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska when she performed the title role in the brothers Sergei and Nikolai Legat's 1903 revival of "Die Puppenfee" ("The Fairy Doll") for the Mariinsky Theatre. "Die Puppenfee" was originally staged in 1888 by the Ballet Master Joseph Hasseiter to the music of Josef Bayer for the Court Opera Ballet in Vienna. In its traditional staging, this Pas de trois serves as a pas d'action for three dancers: two pierrots and the Fairy Doll. The pierrots quarrel in an attempt to "out dance" one another in an effort to impress the Fairy Doll. The Mariinsky Ballet still performs this pas on occasion as a concert piece"


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Thanks again.

[pjme]

You're welcome!

Peter