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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Ballet by Darius Milhaud</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="vevent">25 October 1923<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1923-10-25</span>)</span><br /><span class="summary"><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_des_Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es" title="Théâtre des Champs-Élysées">Théâtre des Champs-Élysées</a>, Paris</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original ballet company</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ballets_su%C3%A9dois" title="Ballets suédois">Ballets suédois</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>La Création du monde</b></i>, <a href="/wiki/Opus_number" title="Opus number">Op.</a> 81a, is a 15-minute-long <a href="/wiki/Ballet" title="Ballet">ballet</a> composed by <a href="/wiki/Darius_Milhaud" title="Darius Milhaud">Darius Milhaud</a> in 1922–23 to a libretto by <a href="/wiki/Blaise_Cendrars" title="Blaise Cendrars">Blaise Cendrars</a>, which outlines the creation of the world based on <a href="/wiki/Traditional_African_religions" title="Traditional African religions">African folk mythology</a>. The premiere took place on 25 October 1923 at <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_des_Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es" title="Théâtre des Champs-Élysées">Théâtre des Champs-Élysées</a> in Paris. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It was in London in 1920 that Milhaud discovered <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On a trip to the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> in 1922, Darius Milhaud heard "authentic" <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> on the streets of <a href="/wiki/Harlem" title="Harlem">Harlem</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-PCmonde_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCmonde-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which left a great impact on his musical outlook. It was like nothing he had heard before. He wrote "against the beat of the drums, the melodic lines crisscrossed in a breathless pattern of broken and twisted rhythms."<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Using jazz elements, the following year he finished composing <i>La Création du monde</i>, which was cast as a <a href="/wiki/Ballet" title="Ballet">ballet</a> in six continuous parts.<sup id="cite_ref-PCmonde_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCmonde-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work was commissioned by the <a href="/wiki/Ballets_su%C3%A9dois" title="Ballets suédois">Ballets suédois</a>, a ballet company which was contemporary to <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Diaghilev" title="Sergei Diaghilev">Diaghilev</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes">Ballets Russes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SPC_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company was very influential in the early 1920s, staging five seasons in Paris and touring continually. </p><p>The ballet reflects both the ideal of the aesthetic of <a href="/wiki/Les_six" class="mw-redirect" title="Les six">Les six</a> to combine popular forms of art and a centuries-old French penchant for <a href="/wiki/Exoticism" title="Exoticism">exoticism</a>. Milhaud was very susceptible to all kinds of influences, but it was a different type of exoticism that drew him. He was in the Paris of <i>Le jazz hot</i>, singer <a href="/wiki/Josephine_Baker" title="Josephine Baker">Josephine Baker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>'s paintings, and the sculptures inspired by African masks.<sup id="cite_ref-SPC_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the early '20s, African (and Afro-American) fashion was sweeping Paris, and this ballet may have been Ballets suédois' attempt to follow the trend.<sup id="cite_ref-SPC_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Les Six frequently socialized at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gaya_Bar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gaya Bar (page does not exist)">Gaya Bar</a>, where Milhaud liked to hear <a href="/wiki/Jean_Wiener" title="Jean Wiener">Jean Wiener</a> play "negro music" in a popular style. During the jazz age in Paris this music was often labeled "le tumulte noir (the black noise)."<sup id="cite_ref-indianapolissymphony.org_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indianapolissymphony.org-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Milhaud first heard an American <a href="/wiki/Jazz_band" title="Jazz band">jazz band</a> in London (1920), he was reportedly so captivated that he took off to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> to spend time in clubs and bars, visit <a href="/wiki/Harlem" title="Harlem">Harlem</a> and mingle with jazz musicians.<sup id="cite_ref-SPC_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After returning to France, Milhaud began to write in what he called a <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/Idiom" title="Idiom">idiom</a>. He chose to color his music with bluesy turns of harmony and melody, swinging climaxes, and stomping rhythms.<sup id="cite_ref-SPC_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jazz influences appear in many of his compositions, but this ballet was the first opportunity to express his new passion; even the instrumental grouping draws on his memories of <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. "In some of the shows," Milhaud noted, "the singers were accompanied by flute, clarinet, trumpets, trombone, a complicated percussion section played by just one man, piano and string quartet."<sup id="cite_ref-SPC_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a> said of the piece, "The Creation of the World emerges not as a flirtation but as a real love affair with jazz."<sup id="cite_ref-indianapolissymphony.org_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indianapolissymphony.org-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the time, <i>La Création du monde</i> was more a <a href="/wiki/Succ%C3%A8s_de_scandale" title="Succès de scandale">succès de scandale</a> than a true success.<sup id="cite_ref-SPC_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ballet costumes designed by <a href="/wiki/Fernand_L%C3%A9ger" title="Fernand Léger">Fernand Léger</a> (who also created the stage sets) worked well visually, but were difficult to dance in; the costumes were heavy and too inflexible to allow the dancers to move freely.<sup id="cite_ref-SPC_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The costumes and sets from the original performance of <i>La Création du monde</i> still survive in museums and galleries, while the music has taken its place in the concert repertoire. The choreography is revived occasionally out of curiosity.<sup id="cite_ref-SPC_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Instrumentation">Instrumentation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Instrumentation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The score is written for a small orchestra of eighteen instrumentalists: 2 <a href="/wiki/Flutes" class="mw-redirect" title="Flutes">flutes</a>, (1 also plays <a href="/wiki/Piccolo" title="Piccolo">piccolo</a>), <a href="/wiki/Oboe" title="Oboe">oboe</a>, 2 <a href="/wiki/Clarinets" class="mw-redirect" title="Clarinets">clarinets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bassoon" title="Bassoon">bassoon</a>, alto <a href="/wiki/Saxophone" title="Saxophone">saxophone</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_horn" title="French horn">french horn</a>, 2 <a href="/wiki/Trumpets" class="mw-redirect" title="Trumpets">trumpets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trombone" title="Trombone">trombone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piano" title="Piano">piano</a>, 3 <a href="/wiki/Timpani" title="Timpani">timpani</a> + 2 small timpani, 1 percussionist (<a href="/wiki/Snare_drum" title="Snare drum">snare drum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tenor_drum" title="Tenor drum">tenor drum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tambourin" title="Tambourin">tambourin</a>, pedal <a href="/wiki/Bass_drum" title="Bass drum">bass drum</a> + cymbal attachment, <a href="/wiki/Cymbals" class="mw-redirect" title="Cymbals">cymbals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tambourine" title="Tambourine">tambourine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wood-block" class="mw-redirect" title="Wood-block">wood-block</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cowbell" title="Cowbell">cowbell</a>), 2 <a href="/wiki/Violins" class="mw-redirect" title="Violins">violins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Violoncello" class="mw-redirect" title="Violoncello">violoncello</a>, <a href="/wiki/Double_bass" title="Double bass">double bass</a>. The alto saxophone part appears in the score where a viola part would generally be.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Milhaud also made a version for piano and string quartet (Op. 81b).<sup id="cite_ref-SPC_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_recordings">Notable recordings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notable recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Darius Milhaud/orchestra of 19 soloists (Columbia (France), 1932)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a>/Victor Chamber Orchestra (RCA, 1945)</li> <li>Leonard Bernstein/Columbia Chamber Orchestra, including <a href="/wiki/Benny_Goodman" title="Benny Goodman">Benny Goodman</a> (Columbia, 1951)</li> <li>Darius Milhaud/Orchestre de théâtre des Champs Elysées (<a href="/wiki/Disques_Andr%C3%A9_Charlin" class="mw-redirect" title="Disques André Charlin">Disques André Charlin</a>, 1958)</li> <li>John Carewe/members of the <a href="/wiki/London_Symphony_Orchestra" title="London Symphony Orchestra">London Symphony Orchestra</a> (Everest, 1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Munch_(conductor)" title="Charles Munch (conductor)">Charles Munch</a>/<a href="/wiki/Boston_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Boston Symphony Orchestra">Boston Symphony Orchestra</a> (RCA, 1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Pr%C3%AAtre" title="Georges Prêtre">Georges Prêtre</a>/The Paris Conservatoire Orchestra (EMI, 1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Herrmann" title="Bernard Herrmann">Bernard Herrmann</a>/London Festival Recording Ensemble (Decca, 1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Weisberg" title="Arthur Weisberg">Arthur Weisberg</a>/Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (Nonesuch, 1973)</li> <li>Leonard Bernstein/<a href="/wiki/Orchestre_National_de_France" title="Orchestre National de France">Orchestre National de France</a> (EMI, 1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Rattle" title="Simon Rattle">Simon Rattle</a>/<a href="/wiki/London_Sinfonietta" title="London Sinfonietta">London Sinfonietta</a> (EMI, 1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Previn" title="André Previn">André Previn</a> with string quartet (chamber version, RCA, 1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Tilson_Thomas" title="Michael Tilson Thomas">Michael Tilson Thomas</a>/New World Symphony (RCA, 1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orpheus_Chamber_Orchestra" title="Orpheus Chamber Orchestra">Orpheus Chamber Orchestra</a> with <a href="/wiki/Branford_Marsalis" title="Branford Marsalis">Branford Marsalis</a> (Sony, 2000)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output 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College">Pomona College</a>, Department of Music, 1999, webpage (archive from 7 April 2015): <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150407053854/http://www.music.pomona.edu/Orchestra/mil_crea.htm">[1]</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-SPC-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-SPC_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SPC_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SPC_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SPC_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SPC_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SPC_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SPC_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SPC_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SPC_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SPC_3-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> "Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra" (program notes), <a href="/wiki/Saint_Paul,_MN" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Paul, MN">Saint Paul</a> <a href="/wiki/Chamber_Orchestra" class="mw-redirect" title="Chamber Orchestra">Chamber Orchestra</a>, 1999, TheSPCO.org webpage: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thespco.org/events/program_notes.cfm?id_program_notes=98">SPCO-98</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20061001012158/http://www.thespco.org/events/program_notes.cfm?id_program_notes=98">Archived</a> 2006-10-01 at <a href="/wiki/Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-indianapolissymphony.org-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-indianapolissymphony.org_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-indianapolissymphony.org_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output 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the Orchestra</i>. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 207. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780520050624" title="Special:BookSources/9780520050624"><bdi>9780520050624</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Anatomy+of+the+Orchestra&rft.place=Berkeley&rft.pages=207&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=9780520050624&rft.aulast=Del+Mar&rft.aufirst=Norman&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALa+cr%C3%A9ation+du+monde" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde,_Op.81a_(Milhaud,_Darius)" class="extiw" title="scores:La création du monde, Op.81a (Milhaud, Darius)">La création du monde</a>: Scores at the <a href="/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project" title="International Music Score Library Project">International Music Score Library Project</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkUNchTOQJo">Video (22:17) – Darius Milhaud – <i>La création du monde</i> (Ballet).</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVskcfD5VLg">Video (18:05) – Darius Milhaud – <i>La création du monde</i> (Orchestra).</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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