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Piano - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q18958 Arranged for piano by Caroline Potter. Composed by Juliette Marie Olga (Lili) Boulanger. Arranged by Caroline Potter. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 4 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q18958. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q18958). In her all too brief career, Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) composed a number of works whose existenceis unquestioned for which there is proof they existed but which have now disappeared.One of these missing pieces, Marche gaie, resurfaced in short score form in 2011 in a privatecollection in North Carolina; the owners of the manuscript are the grandchildren of the work’sdedicatee, Jeanne Leygues. As Marche gaie was registered with SACEM (the collecting Society for music in France) as a work for chamberorchestra in 1916, we can assume it was composed in that year. While the manuscript is in anunknown hand, there is musical and circumstantial evidence, combined with testimony fromthe family (whose Leygues ancestors knew the Boulanger family well), that shows beyond reasonabledoubt that this is a missing work by Lili Boulanger. Jeanne Leygues, daughter of the French politician Georges Leygues, briefly Prime Minister in1920-1 and a great supporter of the arts, married an American, Paul Rockwell, who fought withhis brother in the French Foreign Legion in World War I. We can assume that Marche gaie wascommissioned for Jeanne’s wedding in December 1916, not least because the piece alludes toMendelssohn’s famous Wedding March in bars 25-32, a gesture typical of Lili Boulanger, whowas fond of quotation and allusion. Marche gaie was originally paired with a Marche funèbre,a work yet to resurface. It is a pleasure to bring this occasional piece to life. The author is very grateful to Paul Sholarand Vance Brown, of Asheville, North Carolina, for their generous assistance in preparingMarche gaie for publication. - Caroline Potter. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).