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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:03, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

La Damoiselle élue

 * ... that the cantata La Damoiselle élue, Debussy's first orchestral music performed in public, was inspired by a poem by Rossetti who also made a painting of the subject (pictured)? Source:  "Through his involvement with the literary Symbolists, Debussy discovered a then recently published anthology of English poetry translated by Gabriel Sarrazin, Poètes modernes d’Angleterre (1883), which included illustrations by Pre-Raphaelite artists as well as Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem The Blessèd Damozel (1850). It was on this French prose translation of Rossetti that Debussy based his lyric cantata ..." "lthough it is unlikely that Debussy knew Rossetti’s painting The Blessèd Damozel (1877) at the time of writing his cantata – Pre-Raphaelite paintings did not come to France until the 1890s – the illustrations in Sarrazin’s anthology introduced Debussy to the visual element of the Pre-Raphaelite’s exotic ‘other’, especially their exploration of a new type of feminine beauty. " "Premièred at the Société nationale on 8 April 1893, La damoiselle élue was the first of Debussy’s orchestral works to be performed."
 * ALT1:... that when Claude Debussy wrote his cantata La Damoiselle élue setting a poem by Gabriel Dante Rossetti, he had probably not seen the poet's painting of the subject (pictured)? Source: same
 * Reviewed: Foxwarren Park

Created by LouisAlain (talk). Nominated by Gerda Arendt (talk) at 16:06, 20 June 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg This article is new enough and long enough. The image is in the public domain, the article is neutral and I doubt it has any copyright problems. QPQ has been done. ALT1 will not do because it refers to the painting by Rossetti which is not mentioned in the article text. This fact is apparently mentioned in #1 and could be added to the article, but I was unable to access that source. ALT0 is perhaps OK because one could argue that the existence of the painting is evidenced by the image of it in the article even if the text does not mention it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:10, 11 July 2017 (UTC)


 * The text now mentions the painting, and that Debussy probably didn't see it at composition time, and that he saw others in the style. I thought I had added that before, but perhaps missed hitting "save". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:46, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg Previous reviewer's comment seems to have been addressed. I'm taking the rest of the review on good faith. -Kieran (talk) 16:37, 23 July 2017 (UTC)