Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the theme proposed by Claude Révolte for the commissioned work I have to deliver in the symphonic format next summer at the Festival des Eurochestries in Charente-Maritime in France.

In order to feed my creative thoughts, I would welcome your sentiments about Saint-Exupéry and what he represents for you. This would help me out in sketching my musical ideas.

Beyond Petit Prince and Vol de nuit books that I know well, Saint-Exupéry gives me a feeling of huge solitude similar to the desert he used to fly over with love. Despite everything, you could see his fondness for the humans, his brothers and sisters. He was born right at the begining of the XX^th Century and disappeared at the end of the Second World War. His plane has been found at last a few years ago.

As if he could not survive a murderous era from which he escaped thru a poetic yet without being naive neither complacent. He was a fine human soul observer. He knew all its mechanism and subtilities. He is the elder brother I never had.

And for you, what does it represent?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me.

P.-S. Interestingly enough, for those curious about intellectual property, here is a particular fact about the copyright extension of Saint-Exupéry :

« Due to Saint-Exupéry’s wartime death, his estate received the civil code designation Mort pour la France (English: Died for France), which was applied by the French Government in 1948. Amongst the law’s provisions is an increase of 30 years in the duration of copyright;^[65] thus most of Saint-Exupéry’s creative works will not fall out of copyright status in France for an extra 30 years. »[1]