Ravel's Influence On Daphnis Et Chloe

Longus was a Greek novelist who was thought to be alive during the third century A.D. and coming from the island of Lesbos. He wrote the novel Daphnis et Chloé as four books. It was found by a French bishop in the sixteenth century and translating, after which the story rose to popularity in the Renaissance (Longus 1). In addition to Ravel’s musical score, Mikhail Fokine was in charge of choreography. All the components for Daphnis et Chloé took just over three years to come together. Ravel’s collaborators included Fokine, Bakst, Diaghilev and Nijinsky (Gutmann). Daphnis et Chloé is Ravel’s longest work, taking just under an hour to perform. Ravel and Fokine struggled working together. Ravel was more influenced by eighteenth century paintings