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The play has been the basis of several pieces of music. Perhaps the best known is the Impressionist opera by Claude Debussy, first performed in Paris in 1902. It is part of the standard operatic repertoire. There are a number of recordings of it and it is regularly performed.

Earlier, in 1898, Gabriel Fauré had written incidental music for the play, from which he later extracted a suite. Jean Sibelius also wrote incidental music for it in 1905. The story is also the basis of Arnold Schoenberg's early symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande of 1902-03.

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Pelléas et MélisandePelleas et Melisande is a famous Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters. The play has been the basis of several pieces of music. Perhaps the best known is the Impressionist opera by Claude Debussy, f PelleasPelleas was a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian Legend. He deeply loved the maiden Ettard who sadly did not return his affection. The knight Gawain offered to try and persuade her to love Pelleas but betrayed him and slept with her himself. Intrigued