Pièce d'occasion
A pièce d'occasion is 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, piéce d'occasion by Offenbach (1855)
- Les dragées du baptême, piéce d'occasion by Offenbach (1856)