Claude Debussy's Six sonatas for various instruments (French: Six sonates pour divers instruments) was a projected cycle of sonatas that was interrupted...
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was part of his project Six sonatas for various instruments to compose six sonatas for different instruments. It consists of three movements: Prologue...
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Claude Debussy (category Composers for piano)
parts for chorus. In his final years, he focused on chamber music, completing three of six planned sonatas for different combinations of instruments. With...
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movement, Clair de lune, has made it one of the composer's most famous works for piano, as well as one of the most famous musical pieces of all time. Debussy...
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either "veils" or "sails". Numerous orchestrations have been made of the various preludes, mostly of La fille aux cheveux de lin and La cathédrale engloutie...
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The sonatas and partitas for solo violin (BWV 1001–1006) are a set of six works composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. They are sometimes referred to in English...
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Joyful Island) is a piece for solo piano by Claude Debussy composed in 1904. It is assumed that the painting The Embarkation for Cythera by Jean-Antoine...
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some of its denizens had got into the throat of every one of the brass instruments. The work was not performed in Britain until 1908, when the composer...
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conversationalist. Fauré wrote his Dolly Suite in the 1890s for Regina-Hélène and La bonne chanson for Emma. After her affair with Fauré, Emma was introduced...
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Children's Corner (section 3. Serenade for the Doll)
Children's Corner, L. 113, is a six-movement suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It was published by Durand in 1908, and was first performed by Harold...
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Sonatine (Ravel) (category Sonatas by Maurice Ravel)
echoes the second sonata of Six sonatas for various instruments by Claude Debussy. Various other arrangements for solo instruments with piano accompaniment...
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flute, clarinet and piano by Michael Webster, and an arrangement for the instruments of Ravel's Introduction and Allegro (flute, clarinet, harp and string...
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whose title origins are unknown. David Schiff suggests that the inspiration for the title could have stemmed from a painting depicting a snowy landscape...
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Images (piano suite) (redirect from Images (Debussy compositions for solo piano))
Images (usually pronounced in French as [i.maʒ]) is a suite of six compositions for solo piano by Claude Debussy. They were published in two books/series...
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Estampes (Prints), L. 100, is a composition for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It was finished in 1903. The first performance of the work was given by...
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is the original title by composer Claude Debussy for a short piece for piano, composed in 1909 for a piano method and published the same year. It was...
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (category Composers for pipe organ)
trio sonatas and solo sonatas with basso continuo (including ones for harp and viola da gamba); on the other, he wrote several accompanied sonatas for piano...
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Six épigraphes antiques, L. 131, CD. 139, is a suite of six pieces by Claude Debussy, originally written for piano duo. Completed in July 1914, the suite...
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the Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019, three sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, BWV 1027–1029, and two sonatas for flute...
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for Impressionist music to be appreciated, but the critics and the listening public eventually warmed to this experiment in harmonic freedom. Various...
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Described as a "poème dansé" (literally a "danced poem"), it was written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. Debussy...
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Images pour orchestre (redirect from Images for Orchestra)
intended this set of Images as a two-piano sequel to the first set of Images for solo piano, as described in a letter to his publisher Durand as of September...
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(1893) Dances for Harp and String Orchestra (1904) Syrinx for flute (1913) Six sonatas for various instruments (1915–1917): Cello Sonata (1915) Piano Songs...
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flute after the Sonata in A minor composed by C. P. E. Bach over 150 years before (1747), and it is the first such solo composition for the modern Böhm...
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String Quartet (Debussy) (category Compositions for string quartet)
(1893) Dances for Harp and String Orchestra (1904) Syrinx for flute (1913) Six sonatas for various instruments (1915–1917): Cello Sonata (1915) Piano Songs...
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Diana Damrau.[citation needed] It has also been arranged for various instruments, including for violin and orchestra by Jascha Heifetz and cello and piano...
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Stradivarius (category String instruments)
explain the tonal qualities of Stradivarius instruments. The reputation of Stradivarius instruments for having unmatched sound quality has been debated...
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bassoon sonata came to denote a wider range of works, including sonatas for solo bassoon and sonatas for bassoon in various duets with other instruments (such...
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supposedly inspired for La plus que lente by a small sculpture, "La Valse", that he kept on his mantelpiece. However, others point to various sources of inspiration...
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The organ sonatas, BWV 525–530 by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six sonatas in trio sonata form. Each of the sonatas has three movements, with...
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