Curiosa

The music played during the presentation scene of Zohra Ben Brahim is a fragment of the "Épigraphes antiques", a piano (4 hands) piece reworking of the "Chansons de Bilitis" (1900/1901), that Debussy wrote for a chamber ensemble to accompany the recitation of the Zohra-inspired poems by Pierre Louÿs in 1900/1901. These pieces were composed, in any case, a few years after the scene depicted, but the connection is totally adequate.