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L'Apollonide de Leconte de Lisle et Franz Servais. By Malou Haine. Sprimont, Belgium: Mardaga, 2004. [293 p. ISBN 2-87009-813-8. [euro]29.00.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
This well-researched book tells the story of the collaboration between French poet Leconte de Lisle (1818-94) and Belgian composer Franz Servais (1846-1901, and thus almost thirty years the poet's junior) on the stage work L'Apollonide, a tale based on Euripides' Ion. The centerpiece of the book is a series of letters, primarily good-natured and respectful, between the two men, supplemented by a few rather more testy exchanges from 1896 between Mme Leconte de Lisle and ...