Schéhérazade

Schéhérazade (FR) spelling of Arabic Sharazad. Ravel's settings (1903) for voice and orchestra (or piano) of poems by Tristan Klingsor first published in La Revue Blanche in 1901. The character of Sharazad comes from the Arabian Nights Entertainments, also known as the Thousand Nights and One Night, an Arabic work with Persian and Indian sources as well. The tales were first translated into French (1704 – 1717, 12 vols.) by Antoine Galland (1646 – 1715). Sharazad's story is, briefly: A virgin…