Salomé (Mariotte)

During his return to Europe by sea, he had access to a piano to continue his work, and while on leave, he took a course at the Conservatoire by Charles-Marie Widor, then resigned from the navy in 1897, and entered the Schola Cantorum where he was taught by Vincent d'Indy.

Romain Rolland, having read an article by Mariotte in the Revue internationale de musique, helped him to obtain a more generous settlement from Strauss.

On the initiative of the Isola brothers the Paris premiere took place on 22 April 1910 (for twelve performances) at the Gaîté-Lyrique with Lucienne Bréval as Salomé and Mathilde Comès as Hérodias, Jean Périer as Hérode, Georges Petit as Iokanaan and André Gilly as the captain of guards, conducted by Auguste Amalou.

After having been performed at Nancy, Le Havre, Marseille, Geneva, and Prague, Mariotte's Salomé was seen at the Paris Opéra on 1 July 1919 again with Bréval in the title role.

Mariotte's version owes much to the sound world of Debussy and to the disengaged emotional landscape of Maeterlinck,[3] who had highly praised Wilde's play.