Fyodor Chaliapin, born #OTD 150 years ago, as Don Quixote in Georg W Pabst's 1933 film.

Ravel was originally asked to write the songs (which we now know independently as Don Quichotte à Dulcinée), but was unable to complete the commission on time due to illness. The score as we now have it, vocal numbers included, is by Jacques Ibert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrSmHbWRqVo

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Fyodor Chaliapin, born #OTD 150 years ago, as Don Quixote in Georg W Pabst's 1933 film.

Ravel was originally asked to write the songs (which we now know independently as Don Quichotte à Dulcinée), but was unable to fulfil the commission due to illness. The score as we now have it, vocal numbers included, is by Jacques Ibert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrSmHbWRqVo

@classicalmusic #Chaliapin #Film #Pabst #Ibert

Fyodor Chaliapin, was born #OTD 150 years ago as Don Quixote in Georg W Pabst's 1933 film.

Ravel was originally asked to write the songs (which we now know independently as Don Quichotte à Dulcinée), but was unabkle to fulfil the commission due to illness, and the score as we now have it, vocal numbers included, is by Jacques Ibert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrSmHbWRqVo

@classicalmusic #Chaliapin #Film #Pabst #Ibert

Here is Chaliapin singing, for any who want to hear his lovely deep bass voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr85SD5KhHI

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photo by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky of Feodor Chaliapin as Mephisto

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Feodor Chaliapin and Maxim Gorky. Chaliapin was a Russian opera singer with a deep, bass voice. He worked with life-long friend, musician and composer Rachmaninoff. Another friend was Russian writer Maxim Gorky who worked with him on his autobiography, published in Russia in 1917 as a series of articles in the journal Letopis.

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