Berceuse from Dolly, Op. 16
Composed by Gabriel Faure
Urtext Edition by Roy Howat
Gabriel Faure composed two famous Berceuses, of which one – in D major, Op.16 – was conceived for violin and piano (see our Anthology of Faure’s pieces for Violin and Piano, EP 7515). This is the other one. Composed as a piano duet, it found fame as the opening movement of Faure’s Dolly suite, Op.56 – and for many English speakers, as thesignature tune of the BBC’s long-running children’s programme ‘Listen with Mother’. Faure was never a purist about transcriptions, and several of his pieces (not least his Pavane and Sicilienne) exist in various arrangments made or encouraged by Faure, responding to performing needs of the moment. (Roy Howat)
Arrangement: Violin and piano (VLN/PF)
Publisher: Peters Edition
Catalogue Number: EP7624
ISMN: 9790577084176 (M577084176)
Pages: 36
Date Published: 12th Apr 2001