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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Paul (1996). Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. Gatti, Guido M. "The Piano Works of Claude Debussy." The Musical...
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Images pour orchestre, L. 122, is an orchestral composition in three sections by Claude Debussy, written between 1905 and 1912. Debussy had originally...
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Suite bergamasque (redirect from Clair de lune (Debussy))
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 was...
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Pelléas et Mélisande. Debussy's orchestral works include Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), Nocturnes (1897–1899) and Images (1905–1912). His music...
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La mer was the second of Debussy's three orchestral works in three sections, the other being Nocturnes (1892–1899) and Images pour orchestre (1905–1912)...
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Claude Debussy : biographie critique : suivie du catalogue de l'œuvre, Paris: Fayard (2003) ISBN 2213616191. Lesure, François: Catalogue de l'œuvre de Claude...
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La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin (2:26) Debussy's "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair", Performed by Mike Ambrose. La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin (2:49) Performed...
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piano four hands by Claude Debussy. It has been transcribed many times, most notably in an orchestral version by Debussy's colleague Henri Büsser. The...
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French composer Claude Debussy, who wrote it between 1892 and 1899. It is based on poems from Poèmes anciens et romanesques (Henri de Régnier, 1890). Based...
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Estampes (category Suites by Claude Debussy)
Claude Debussy. It was finished in 1903. The first performance of the work was given by Ricardo Viñes at the Salle Érard of the Société Nationale de Musique...
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Two Arabesques (redirect from Deux arabesques (Debussy))
Debussy when he was still in his twenties, between the years 1888 and 1891. Although quite an early work, the arabesques contain hints of Debussy's developing...
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help. Syrinx, L. 129, is a piece of music for solo flute which Claude Debussy wrote in 1913. It generally takes three minutes or less to perform. It...
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these files? See media help. Claude Debussy's Études (L 136) are a set of 12 piano études composed in 1915. Debussy described them as "a warning to pianists...
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Claude Debussy completed his String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (L.91), in 1893 when he was 31 years old. It is Debussy's only string quartet. In 1892...
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Reflets dans l'eau (category Solo piano compositions by Claude Debussy)
Claude Debussy's Reflets dans l'eau ("Reflections in the Water") is the first of three piano pieces from his first volume of Images, which are frequently...
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violoncelle et piano), L. 135, is a sonata for cello and piano by Claude Debussy. It was part of his project Six sonatas for various instruments to compose...
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for "Three Songs"), or Chansons de Charles d’Orléans, L 99 (92), is an a cappella choir composition by Claude Debussy set to the medieval poetry of Charles...
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La cathédrale engloutie (category Preludes by Claude Debussy)
prelude is an example of Debussy's musical impressionism in that it is a musical depiction of, or allusion to, an image or idea. Debussy quite often named his...
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Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (category Compositions by Claude Debussy)
to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration. It was composed in 1894 and first...
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French singer and the mutual love interest of both Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy. Of Jewish descent, Emma married, aged 17, Parisian banker Sigismond Bardac...
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Impressionism in music (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
applied to music at all. Debussy's Impressionist works typically "evoke a mood, feeling, atmosphere, or scene" by creating musical images through characteristic...
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The Songs of Bilitis (redirect from Chansons de Bilitis (Debussy))
a poetry club." In 1897, Louÿs's close friend Claude Debussy set three of the poems—La flûte de Pan, La chevelure and Le tombeau des Naïades—as songs...
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Debussy is a rayed impact crater on Mercury, which was discovered in 1969 by low resolution ground-based radar observations obtained by the Goldstone...
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Six sonatas for various instruments (redirect from Violin Sonata (Debussy))
Couperin and Rameau inspired Debussy as he was writing the sonatas. Durand, in his memoirs entitled Quelques souvenirs d'un éditeur de musique, wrote the following...
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Des pas sur la neige (category Preludes by Claude Debussy)
Des pas sur la neige is a musical composition by French composer Claude Debussy. It is the sixth piece in the composer's first book of Préludes, written...
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Pour le piano (category Suites by Claude Debussy)
when it belonged to the series of Images oubliées, dedicated to Yvonne Lerolle, the daughter of Henry Lerolle. Debussy composed little piano music during...
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Pelléas et Mélisande (opera) (category Operas by Claude Debussy)
(Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play...
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music, Claude Debussy's La Mer; and in literature, Rainer Maria Rilke's Der Berg. Claude Debussy, who loved the sea and painted images of the Far East...
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Erik Satie (category Fin de siècle)
find bits of Ravel in his miniature opera Geneviève de Brabant and echoes of both Fauré and Debussy in the Nouvelles pièces froides of 1907". After concluding...
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