Dukas wrote the short ballet La Péri in 1911 for the dancer Natalia Truhanova. It was first performed on 12 April 1912 as part of a quartet, with Florent Schmitt’s La tragédie de Salomé, d’Indy’s Istar, and Ravel’s Valses Nobles et Sentimentales. Dukas’ 20-minutes work complemented the other scores well, with its dreamy exoticism and orchestration that Dukas likened to “a kind of translucent, enamel”. The ballet score is published by MPH in volume 375.

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