Igor Stravinsky called Daphnis et Chloé " one of the most beautiful products of all French music " and author Burnett James claims that it is " Ravel's most impressive single achievement, as it is his most opulent and confident orchestral score ".

Pitys is mentioned in Longus ' Daphnis and Chloe ( ii. 7 and 39 ) and by Lucian of Samosata ( Dialogues of the Dead, 22. 4 ).

They received names Melaina (" the Black "), Kleodora (" Famed for her Gift "), and Daphnis (" Laurel "); however, in the page in the Corycian nymphs, the third sister is listed as Corycia.

Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel.

At almost an hour long, Daphnis et Chloé is Ravel's longest work.

Daphnis et Chloé is scored for the following instruments:

In the far background, Daphnis is seen following his flock.

Daphnis thinks this is a game of Chloe ’ s.

Another veil slips to the ground, and is again retrieved by Daphnis.

Very little is known of his life, and it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos ( setting for Daphnis and Chloe ) during the 2nd century AD

It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the last word of Daphnis and Chloe's title Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι δ in the Florentine manuscript ; Seiler also observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with λόγου ( not λόγγου ) ποιμενικῶν.

Aside from opera, Prêtre is best known for performances of French music, having conducted long and difficult works like Debussy's La mer and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé without a score ( i. e. from memory ).

Among the other productions of his genius are the Deluge, which represents two angels speeding above the desolate earth from which the destroying waters have just begun to retire, leaving visible behind them the ruin they have wrought ; the Battle of the Lemanus, a piece of elaborate design, crowded but not encumbered with figures, and giving fine expression to the movements of the various bands of combatants and fugitives ; the Prodigal Son, in which the artist has ventured to add to the parable the new element of mother's love, greeting the repentant youth with a welcome that shows that the mother's heart thinks less of the repentance than of the return ; Ruth and Boaz ; Ulysses and Nausicaa ; Hercules at the Feet of Omphale ; the Young Athenian, or, as it is popularly called, Sappho ; Minerva and the Nymphs ; Venus and Adonis ; Daphnis and Chloë ; and Love and the Parcae.

* ‘ Daphnis, or a Pastoral Elegy upon the unfortunate and much-lamented death of Mr. Thomas Creech ,’ 1700 ; second edition ( corrected ) 1701, and it is also found in ‘ A Collection of the best English Poetry ,’ vol.

The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon ( in Greek ), written by Achilles Tatius, is one of the five surviving Ancient Greek romances, notable for its many similarities to Longus ' Daphnis and Chloe, and its apparent mild parodic nature.

The story, we are told, is inspired by this image, but is not based on it, in contrast to Daphnis and Chloe, a romance which also opens with an ekphrasis, but instead of being inspired by the painting is in fact an interpretation of the painting, making the whole novel a form of ekphrasis.

Daphnis and Chloe (, Daphnis kai Chloē ) is the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist and romancer Longus.

Daphnis and Chloe resembles a modern novel more than does its chief rival among Greek erotic romances, the Aethiopica of Heliodorus, which is remarkable more for its plot than its characterization.

Daphnis and Chloe is the story of a boy ( Daphnis ) and a girl ( Chloe ), each of whom is exposed at birth along with some identifying tokens.

Then followed Daphnis ( 1754 ), Idyllen ( 1756 and 1772 ), Inkel and Yariko ( 1756 ), a version of a story borrowed from The Spectator and already worked out by Gellert and Bodmer, and Der Tod Abels ( 1758 ), which Gessner called “ a sort of idyllic prose pastoral .”

In the end, Daphnis and Chloe are recognized by their birth parents, get married, and live out their lives in the country.

Daphnis and Chloe enter at the foreground and bow before the Nymphs.

# The Corycian Nymphs ( Coryceia, Cleodora, Daphnis, Melaina )

* 1914 – Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter ( d. 2010 )

* In the rings of Saturn, the Encke and Keeler gaps within the A Ring are cleared by 1: 1 resonances with the embedded moonlets Pan and Daphnis, respectively.

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

When Ravel used a 5 / 4 time in the final part of his ballet Daphnis and Chloe ( 1912 ), dancers of the Ballets Russes sang Ser-ge-dia-ghi-lev during rehearsals to keep the correct rhythm.

5 and 8 describe the myth of Daphnis in a song contest, 6, the cosmic and mythological song of Silenus, 7, a heated poetic contest, and 10 the sufferings of the contemporary elegiac poet Cornelius Gallus.

Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d ' eau, Miroirs, Le tombeau de Couperin and Gaspard de la nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, uses a variety of sound and instrumentation.

Ravel began work with impresario Sergei Diaghilev during 1909 for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé commissioned by Diaghilev with the lead danced by the famous ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.

In 1907 on Misia's boat L ' Aimée, Ravel completed L ' heure espagnole and the Rapsodie espagnole, and at the premiere of Daphnis et Chloé, Ravel arrived late and did not go to his box but to Misia's, where he offered her a Japanese doll.

Nyrop gives a vivid example in the classic love story of Daphnis and Chloe.

Sculpture of Pan ( mythology ) | Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes ; ca.

In Greek mythology, Daphnis (, from, daphne, " Bay Laurel ") was a Sicilian shepherd who was said to be the inventor of pastoral poetry.

According to tradition, he was the son of Hermes and a nymph, despite which Daphnis himself was mortal.

Daphnis was also the name of a member of the group of Prophetic sisters, known as the Thriae.

Longus's legend of Daphnis and Chloe describes two children who grow up together and gradually develop mutual love, eventually marrying after many adventures.

Theocritus ' story of naiad jealousy was that of a shepherd, Daphnis, who was the lover of Nomia or Echenais ; Daphnis had on several occasions been unfaithful to Nomia and as revenge she permanently blinded him.

Unpredictable turns of fortune drive the complicated plotlines of Hellenistic romances, such as Leucippe and Clitophon or Daphnis and Chloe.

The initial recordings included live concert performances of William Bolcom's 8th Symphony and Lyric Concerto, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, and Ravel's complete Daphnis et Chloé, which won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance.

In 1 Thyrsis sings to a goatherd how Daphnis, the mythical herdsman, having defied the power of Aphrodite, dies rather than yield to a passion with which the goddess had inspired him.

This was a sort of florid romance, in two books of six-line stanzas, in the manner of Lodge and Shakespeare, dealing at large with the complaint of Daphnis for the love of Ganymede.

For Diaghilev, in Paris he conducted the world premieres of Stravinsky's Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, and The Nightingale ; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé ; and Debussy's Jeux.

Monteux was the conductor for the two outstanding works of the season, Vaslav Nijinsky's ballet version of Debussy's Prélude à l ' après-midi d ' un faune, made with the composer's approval, and Fokine's Daphnis et Chloé to a score commissioned from Ravel.