Pièce d'occasion

A pièce d'occasion like the word pièce meaning preparing and d'occasion meaning for special occasion suggests a composition, dance or theatrical piece composed, often commissioned, for a festive occasion.

Examples

 * The Dying Swan, ballet by Mikhail Fokine (to Camille Saint-Saëns's cello solo Le cygne) for the ballerina Anna Pavlova (1905)
 * Fanfare for a Prince, ballet by John Taras (1956)
 * Dance Preludes, ballet by Miriam Mahdaviani (1991)
 * FOR 4, dance by Christopher Wheeldon (to Franz Schubert's Death and the Maiden) (2006)
 * Silla, opera seria by Handel (1713)
 * Elvida, opera by Gaetano Donizetti (1826)
 * Entrez, messieurs, mesdames, pièce d'occasion by Offenbach (1855)
 * Les dragées du baptême, pièce d'occasion by Offenbach (1856)
 * La statue retrouvée (1923), an entertainment for a private costume ball in Paris with music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, designs by Pablo Picasso and choreography by Leonide Massine.
 * How He Lied to Her Husband, playlet by George Bernard Shaw (1905).